Security Engineer, Agent Security
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 design, implement and iterate on identity, network and runtime-level defenses for agentic AI systems, ship production-grade security tooling to harden safety monitoring pipelines, collaborate daily with infrastructure, product, research and safety teams, and shape the Agent Security roadmap and industry standards.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or a systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++)
- Track record shipping and operating secure, high-reliability services
- Expertise in isolation techniques, container security and kernel-level hardening
- Hands-on network security experience
- Cloud security depth on Azure, AWS or GCP
- Clear communication across engineering, research and leadership
- Familiarity with AI/ML security (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Architect identity, network and runtime-level security controls for agentic AI
- Build production-grade security tooling for safety monitoring pipelines
- Collaborate with Agent Infrastructure, product, research, safety and security teams
- Shape the Agent Security roadmap and publish best practices
- Develop threat models
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick 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
