Hybrid Security AI Deployment Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Travel up to 50%

Job summary

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customer security leaders to scale AI defenses in production. In this role you’ll help enterprises identify, test, and deploy patches across large codebases, and build tools for security decisions.

You’ll work with customer CSOs and OpenAI teams to shape product capabilities, translate priorities into deployed systems, and drive adoption while ensuring safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production software.
• Experience protecting production systems through work in 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. For a patching agent, test whether a fix blocks a known exploit while preserving expected application behavior.
• Guide production rollout with the engineers who will operate the system. Provide observability and controls they need to understand system behavior, intervene when necessary, and expand adoption with confidence.
• Translate successful approaches across deployments into reusable tools and engineering practices that other defenders can adopt.

Skills

Software engineering

Security engineering

AI agents

CI/CD

Code comprehension

Technical communication

Job description

OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customer security leaders to scale AI defenses in production. In this role you’ll help enterprises identify, test, and deploy patches across large codebases, and build tools for security decisions.

You’ll work with customer CSOs and OpenAI teams to shape product capabilities, translate priorities into deployed systems, and drive adoption while ensuring safety and reliability.