Hybrid Cyber FDE: AI Security Deployment Lead

OpenAI, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team builds with customers to bring frontier AI into production. In New York, this hybrid role partners with customer security teams to scope engagements, integrate agents into security workflows, and translate security priorities into deployed systems.

You'll lead technical design, test capabilities, and guide production rollout with engineers, while shaping reusable tools across deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, shipping production software.
• Experience protecting production systems through security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering.
• Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows.
• CI/CD practices that maintain code quality, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customer security leaders and OpenAI's Go-to-Market team to scope engagements and define success criteria.
• Lead technical design and implementation alongside customer engineers; integrate agents into security workflows and determine human review requirements.
• Build evaluations grounded in defender decisions; test patches for exploits while preserving behavior and test detection systems with historical data.
• Guide production rollout with engineers; provide observability, controls and drive adoption with confidence.
• Translate successful approaches into reusable tools and engineering practices for other deployments.

Skills

Software engineering

Security engineering

AI/ML systems

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Tools

CodeQL

Semgrep

Sigma

YARA

Splunk

KQL

Job description

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team builds with customers to bring frontier AI into production. In New York, this hybrid role partners with customer security teams to scope engagements, integrate agents into security workflows, and translate security priorities into deployed systems.

You'll lead technical design, test capabilities, and guide production rollout with engineers, while shaping reusable tools across deployments.