Applied AI Engineer Cyber Government
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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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About the Role
You will work directly with government cyber operators and security teams to identify valuable AI use cases and bring secure solutions into operational use. You will build prototypes, agentic workflows, evaluations, and reference architectures; integrate security tools and APIs; and translate deployment insights into product feedback and reusable technical guidance.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance and current active full-scope polygraph
- 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity, cyber operations, or security-focused software engineering experience
- Experience working with government customers or national-security mission teams
- Offensive and defensive cybersecurity expertise
- Experience writing code, integrating security tools, and deploying cyber capabilities or automation
- Knowledge of secure network and cloud architecture, identity, least privilege, authorization boundaries, and application-security toolchains
- Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Go
- Experience integrating APIs, agents, command-line tools, and security platforms
- Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Work on-site with clients in the DMV area
- Own hands-on implementation of government cybersecurity use cases
- Lead technical discovery for AI applications across cybersecurity domains
- Build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures
- Design and run evaluations of correctness, security impact, reliability, and operator effectiveness
- Establish success criteria, deliver outcomes, and complete operational handoffs
- Contribute reusable code, examples, and technical guidance
- Publish implementation patterns and share best practices
- Translate deployment insights and evaluation results into product feedback
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO or up to 15 annual days for non-exempt employees
- Paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Daily office meals and eligible meal-delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
