Applied AI Architect, Cyber
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will partner with customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, working with CISOs, security executives and practitioners. You will lead discovery, build demos, prototypes and reference architectures, scope pilots, advise on safe implementation patterns, and feed insights back to Product, Engineering and Research.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture or similar customer-facing technical experience
- Strong cybersecurity domain expertise
- Ability to communicate with CISOs, CTOs and security practitioners
- Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents and security tooling
- Understanding of designing AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails and human-in-the-loop review
- Experience scoping pilots from ambiguous customer pain
Responsibilities
- Embed with strategic customers as technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows
- Lead discovery across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, detection engineering, red team, cloud security, identity and GRC automation
- Build and deliver demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept and reference architectures
- Scope pilots with success criteria, data requirements, integrations, evaluation methods and safety boundaries
- Advise customers on safe implementation patterns including tool calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, guardrails and auditability
- Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details
- Create reusable field assets such as playbooks, FAQs and assessment templates
- Deliver feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security and GTM teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Commission
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
