Software Engineer, Codex 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 end-to-end product features for Codex Security, from developer-facing interfaces to APIs and backend services. You'll own ambiguous 0-to-1 projects, design scalable observable systems for long-running analyses, turn security research into intuitive workflows, and collaborate with product, security research, infrastructure and customer-facing teams.
Requirements
- Excellent software engineer with strong fundamentals and range across product, backend, infrastructure, and developer tooling
- Experience owning features from concept to production
- Experience building developer tools, workflow-heavy platforms, security products, or internal infrastructure
- Strong product instincts
- Excitement about security and AI
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end product features for Codex Security, from interfaces to APIs, backend services, and workflow tooling
- Own ambiguous 0-to-1 projects across product, platform security controls, deployment workflows, and cyber model infrastructure
- Translate security research and model capabilities into workflows for finding, validating, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities
- Design scalable, observable systems for long-running analyses across large codebases and enterprise environments
- Partner with product, security research, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to iterate on feedback
- Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Codex Cyber
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents) plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures, plus 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 for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
