Lead AI Security Researcher & Vulnerability Architect

Rozgoo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a security lead to map, characterize, and prioritize cross-layer vulnerabilities in advanced AI systems—from data pipelines to training runtimes and supply chains. You will drive offensive research, produce technical deliverables, and help expand the Codex Security product line in collaboration with external partners.

You will thrive if you have strong vulnerability research experience, can operate independently, and communicate clearly with experts and

Qualifications

• Experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, or offensive security.
• Deep experience with cutting edge offensive-security techniques.
• Fluent across AI/ML infrastructure and threat-model end-to-end.
• Operate independently, align diverse teams, and deliver on tight timelines.
• Communicate clearly with experts and decision-makers.
• Care deeply about improving security of widely used software and open-source infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep security research to discover vulnerabilities across large codebases and distributed architectures.
• Investigate and validate vulnerabilities discovered by AI-driven security agents, including proofs-of-concept and exploit demonstrations.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve automated vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation workflows.
• Build high quality security datasets and evals to advance model cybersecurity capabilities; train AI models for vulnerability discovery and remediation.
• Publish technical writeups and vulnerability analyses that advance the state of application security.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Exploit development

Offensive security

AI/ML security

Threat modeling

Technical communication

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking a security lead to map, characterize, and prioritize cross-layer vulnerabilities in advanced AI systems—from data pipelines to training runtimes and supply chains. You will drive offensive research, produce technical deliverables, and help expand the Codex Security product line in collaboration with external partners.

You will thrive if you have strong vulnerability research experience, can operate independently, and communicate clearly with experts and