Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber, to create technical content, developer tools, and sample apps that help developers and security teams secure software using Codex Security and OpenAI APIs.

You will work with developers, security practitioners, and founders, turning cybersecurity capabilities into runnable examples and owning projects from prototype through release. This hands-on role requires strong software skills and curiosity about cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping useful software, developer tools, or products for technical users.
• Experience building applications with AI models, APIs, or agent workflows, and translating experimentation into reliable, maintainable code.
• Experience with application security, vulnerability management, secure development workflows, or security tooling.
• A portfolio of technical content, compelling demos, sample applications, or developer tooling that helps others learn and build.

Responsibilities

• Build demos, sample applications, and developer tools that demonstrate practical ways to use Codex, OpenAI’s APIs, and Cyber products for secure software development and defensive workflows.
• Create tutorials, blog posts, videos, and code samples that help developers understand security findings, validate and prioritize vulnerabilities, review proposed changes, and verify fixes.
• Develop reference integrations that connect AI-assisted security workflows to source control, code review, and continuous integration, helping teams move from initial setup to repeatable use.

Skills

Strong engineering fundamentals

Shipping developer tools

AI models/APIs

Developer empathy

Security tooling

Job description

About The Team

The Developer Experience team at OpenAI has a singular focus: empowering developers globally. Our mission is to provide every developer and startup on the planet with the most delightful and seamless experience to integrate AI into their applications and products. We ensure developers have the tools, resources, and support they need to unlock AI’s full potential.

We create inspiring demos, developer tools, sample applications, and technical content that show developers how to build with Codex and frontier models like GPT-6 Astra, GPT-Live, and GPT-Image-2.5 to create powerful agents and AI-native applications.

We collaborate closely with product, engineering, research, and GTM teams to ensure the developer journey, from onboarding with Codex to first API call to production deployment, is seamless, effective, and delightful.

About The Role

As a Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber, you will create technical content, developer tools, and sample applications that help developers and security teams secure the software they build and depend on. You will turn OpenAI’s cybersecurity capabilities, including Codex Security, into clear, runnable examples and useful learning experiences.

You will work directly with developers, security practitioners, and technical founders to understand their needs and show how AI can improve secure development and defensive security workflows. We’re looking for a hands‑on engineer who combines strong software skills, creativity, developer empathy, and curiosity about cybersecurity, and who can own projects from the first prototype through release and ongoing improvement.

In This Role, You Will

• Build demos, sample applications, and developer tools that demonstrate practical ways to use Codex, OpenAI’s APIs, and Cyber products for secure software development and defensive workflows.
• Create tutorials, blog posts, videos, and code samples that help developers understand security findings, validate and prioritize vulnerabilities, review proposed changes, and verify fixes.
• Develop reference integrations that connect AI‑assisted security workflows to source control, code review, and continuous integration, helping teams move from initial setup to repeatable use.
• Partner with Cyber engineers and security researchers to make examples technically accurate and results understandable, with clear guidance on evidence, validation, and the limitations of model-generated findings.
• Demonstrate sound security practices in examples and tooling, including appropriate permissions, credential handling, protection of sensitive code and data, and human review of agent actions.
• Engage developers and security practitioners through events, workshops, and online communities, serving as an approachable technical resource and advocate.
• Gather and synthesize practitioner feedback to identify friction, inform product priorities, and improve the journey from onboarding to everyday use.
• Contribute directly to developer‑facing interfaces, documentation, and tooling, working with product, engineering, and go‑to‑market partners to help users adopt and succeed with OpenAI’s developer products.

Your Background Might Look Something Like

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping useful software, developer tools, or products for technical users.
• Experience building applications with AI models, APIs, or agent workflows, and translating experimentation into reliable, maintainable code.
• Experience with application security, vulnerability management, secure development workflows, or security tooling.
• A portfolio of technical content, compelling demos, sample applications, or developer tooling that helps others learn and build.
• Strong developer empathy and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly through writing, code, and conversation.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and technical user communities, with thoughtful judgment about usability, security, and correctness.
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems end to end, learning unfamiliar domains, and iterating quickly as products and user needs evolve.
• A commitment to responsible AI development and an interest in helping developers use powerful capabilities safely and effectively.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $198K - $335K