Cyber FDE - AI Security in Production (Remote)

VulnU; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 weeks parental leave

Equity

Retirement match

Flexible PTO

Learning budget

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in New York City. You will partner with security leaders to define engagements, design and implement agent-driven security tools, and validate deployments across enterprise systems.

This role emphasizes building production-grade AI-enabled security workflows and scalable defense strategies. You will collaborate with product, research, and GTM teams to tailor OpenAI’s capabilities for customer defense needs, ensuring safe and effective deployment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience protecting production systems through security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering.
• Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices that maintain code quality, reliability, and security.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute maintainable, production-quality changes.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to engineering teams and senior security stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customer security leaders and OpenAI’s Go-to-Market team to scope engagements, establish responsibilities, and define measurable success criteria.
• Lead technical design and implementation alongside customer engineers. Integrate agents into security workflows, establish access boundaries, and determine which actions require human review.
• Build evaluations grounded in the decisions defenders make and test patches or detections for effectiveness.
• Guide production rollout with the engineers who will operate the system and provide observability and controls.
• Translate successful approaches across deployments into reusable tools and engineering practices that other defenders can adopt.

Skills

Software engineering

Security engineering

CI/CD

AI agents

Cloud security

Tools

CodeQL

Semgrep

Sigma

YARA

Splunk

KQL

Job description

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in New York City. You will partner with security leaders to define engagements, design and implement agent-driven security tools, and validate deployments across enterprise systems.

This role emphasizes building production-grade AI-enabled security workflows and scalable defense strategies. You will collaborate with product, research, and GTM teams to tailor OpenAI’s capabilities for customer defense needs, ensuring safe and effective deployment