Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labonsitesenior$185k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build AI systems that give defenders an advantage at global scale.
- Help enterprises patch hundreds of thousands of code repositories.
- Analyze petabytes of logs to detect malicious agents and attacks.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Security-curious software engineer who loves building alongside customers and turning defender challenges into trusted AI systems in production.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production software
- Experience protecting production systems via security, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps or product engineering
- Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines maintaining quality, reliability and security
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute production-quality changes
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to engineers and senior security stakeholders
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week, travel up to 50% required
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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