Cyber AI Engineer for Secure, Scalable Deployments

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This customer-facing technical role sits at the intersection of executive strategy and practical security implementation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Broad cybersecurity domain expertise across areas such as application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
• Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders and highly technical security practitioners.
• Understanding of how to design AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to scope pilots from ambiguous customer pain, define success metrics, data requirements, and deployment constraints.

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, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, 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 practical 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, blockers, product gaps, and emerging cyber workflows.

Job description

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

This customer-facing technical role sits at the intersection of executive strategy and practical security implementation.