Government Cyber AI Engineer - Onsite, TS/SCI, Secure Prototyping

OpenAI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 211,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government, to empower agencies with AI-powered cyber solutions. This role involves working hands-on with deployed tools, designing architectures using OpenAI models, APIs, and security tooling in collaboration with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Security teams.

Candidates should have deep cybersecurity experience, TS/SCI clearance, and 7+ years of work with government or national security missions.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with current full-scope polygraph.
• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity or security-focused software engineering.
• Experience with government or national security missions preferred.
• Hands-on coding across Python/JavaScript/Go with secure workflows.
• Ability to understand secure network and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Work on-site with clients in the DMV area.
• Own hands-on implementation for government cyber use cases, working alongside account-aligned technical owners, customer engineers, cyber operators, and security practitioners.
• Lead technical discovery to identify high-value AI applications across authorized red teaming, adversary emulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, malware analysis, and similar domains.
• Build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures using OpenAI models, supported APIs, Codex, and integrations with customers’ security tools and infrastructure.
• Design and run evaluations that measure technical correctness, security impact, reliability, and operator effectiveness, and use the results to guide implementation and deployment decisions.
• Partner with government security leaders, mission teams, account owners, integrators, and OpenAI Security and Product teams to establish success criteria, deliver measurable outcomes, and complete clear operational handoffs.
• Contribute reusable code, examples, and technical guidance to our open-source developer and enterprise resources.
• Scale the Applied AI Engineering function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing notebooks and implementation patterns to internal and external repositories.
• Translate customer deployments, operational insights, and evaluation results into actionable feedback for Product, Engineering, and Research teams.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Cybersecurity

Team collaboration

Tools

GitHub

CodeQL

Snyk

Semgrep

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government, to empower agencies with AI-powered cyber solutions. This role involves working hands-on with deployed tools, designing architectures using OpenAI models, APIs, and security tooling in collaboration with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Security teams.

Candidates should have deep cybersecurity experience, TS/SCI clearance, and 7+ years of work with government or national security missions.