Agent Security Engineer for AI Systems

Coinscapture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer on the Agent Security Team to secure its cutting-edge agentic AI systems. You will design and implement robust security frameworks and controls to safeguard OpenAI’s critical assets and ensure safe deployment of agentic systems.

You will develop threat models, collaborate with the Agent Infrastructure group, and lead efforts to enhance safety monitoring pipelines at scale, shipping solutions quickly while upholding high security standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing security controls for agentic AI systems.
• Deep expertise in container security and kernel hardening.

Responsibilities

• Architecting security controls for agentic AI – design, implement, and iterate on identity, network, and runtime-level defenses that integrate with the Agent Infrastructure stack.
• Building production-grade security tooling – ship code that hardens safety monitoring pipelines across agent executions at scale.
• Collaborating cross-functionally – work daily with Agent Infrastructure, product, research, safety, and security teams to balance security, performance, and usability.
• Influencing strategy & standards – shape the long-term Agent Security roadmap, publish best practices internally and externally, and help define industry standards for securing autonomous AI.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

C/C++

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer on the Agent Security Team to secure its cutting-edge agentic AI systems. You will design and implement robust security frameworks and controls to safeguard OpenAI’s critical assets and ensure safe deployment of agentic systems.

You will develop threat models, collaborate with the Agent Infrastructure group, and lead efforts to enhance safety monitoring pipelines at scale, shipping solutions quickly while upholding high security standards.