Cyber AI Architect: Secure Code & Threat Workflows

Fdetimes; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Cybersecurity Applied AI Architect to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, SOC teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes.

This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move between executive strategy, cyber depth, and hands-on solution design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Strong cybersecurity domain expertise across AppSec, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intel, red teaming, or security architecture.
• Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical security practitioners.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or other security tooling.
• Understand how to design AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Able to scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approvals.
• Demonstrate evidence-first security judgment, documenting assumptions and avoiding overstating model or security claims.
• Own problems end-to-end, operate with high throughput across multiple concurrent customer projects, and create reusable leverage for the broader field.
• Maintain a humble attitude and a eagerness to help colleagues and customers succeed.

Responsibilities

• Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, serving as a trusted partner to security executives and practitioners.
• Lead discovery across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, detection engineering, red team, cloud security, identity, and GRC automation use cases.
• Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, and common security tools.
• Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
• Advise customers on safe implementation patterns, including tool and function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
• Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details so each audience understands value, risk, and next steps.
• Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection handling, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.
• Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams based on recurring customer requirements and blockers.

Skills

Technical consulting

Security architecture

Executive communication

Hands-on solution design

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Codex

GitHub workflows

CI/CD

Python

JavaScript

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Cybersecurity Applied AI Architect to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, SOC teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes.

This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move between executive strategy, cyber depth, and hands-on solution design.