Remote Vulnerability & Zero‑Day Security Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Enterprise Security Engineer focused on vulnerability management and zero-day response to safeguard our networks, endpoints, and SaaS environments. You will investigate novel vulnerabilities, prioritize exposure, and drive remediation through verified outcomes while advancing automation and AI-enabled security capabilities.

You will collaborate across security domains, build integrations using APIs, and help shape enterprise security practices as agents become more

Qualifications

• Experience identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities across enterprise networks, endpoints, and SaaS.
• Ability to translate findings into actionable remediation plans and risk context.
• Proven capability to build security capabilities, automate tasks, and integrate tools via APIs.

Responsibilities

• Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise systems, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days with incomplete information.
• Translate technical findings into clear attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation.
• Develop emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable and drive durable fixes to closure.
• Improve asset visibility, data quality, and reporting on security posture.
• Build and operate security tools and integrations using code, APIs, automation, and AI agents.
• Design access controls and accountability for agent execution.
• Support incident investigations across endpoints, networks, identity, and SaaS.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Zero-day response

Security automation

AI agents

Incident response

Code & API integration

Asset visibility

Threat modeling

Tools

APIs

Automation tooling

AI agents platform

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Enterprise Security Engineer focused on vulnerability management and zero-day response to safeguard our networks, endpoints, and SaaS environments. You will investigate novel vulnerabilities, prioritize exposure, and drive remediation through verified outcomes while advancing automation and AI-enabled security capabilities.

You will collaborate across security domains, build integrations using APIs, and help shape enterprise security practices as agents become more