Cyber Forward-Deployed Engineer: AI Security in Production

VulnU; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 weeks parental leave

Retirement match

Flexible PTO

Learning budget

Equity

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to bring frontier AI into production. This role focuses on securing deployments, designing agent-based defenses, and delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise security teams.

You’ll work with CISOs, security analysts, and product teams to evolve defenses, validate patches, and enable scalable, trustworthy AI-powered security workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Background in security engineering or related fields.
• Experience building and evaluating AI agents for engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and code quality practices.
• Ability to read unfamiliar codebases and implement production changes.

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 and integrate agents into security workflows.
• Build evaluations to test defenses, measure detection speed and false positives.
• Guide production rollout with engineers who will operate the system and provide observability.
• Translate successful approaches into reusable tools and engineering practices for others to adopt.

Skills

5+ yrs software eng

Security engineering

AI agent development

CI/CD practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to bring frontier AI into production. This role focuses on securing deployments, designing agent-based defenses, and delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise security teams.

You’ll work with CISOs, security analysts, and product teams to evolve defenses, validate patches, and enable scalable, trustworthy AI-powered security workflows.