Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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'll build systems that give defenders an advantage, working directly with customer security teams from CISOs to analysts. You'll lead technical design and implementation, build evaluations, guide production rollout, and turn successful approaches into reusable tools. The role is hybrid with 3 days in office per week and up to 50% travel.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production software
- Experience protecting production systems via security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering
- Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to engineers and security stakeholders
- Travel up to 50%
Responsibilities
- Partner with customer security leaders and Go-to-Market to scope engagements and define success criteria
- Lead technical design and implementation with customer engineers
- Integrate agents into security workflows and define access boundaries and human review
- Build evaluations grounded in defenders' decisions
- Guide production rollout with observability and controls
- Translate successful approaches into reusable tools and practices
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
