Offensive Security Agent Engineer

OpenAI
New York, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 347,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Technical ownership","Offensive security judgment","Systems thinking","Evaluation focus","Attention to safety"]

Build and lead OpenAI’s offensive security agents that continuously discover, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications. You’ll establish the agents’ architecture, evaluation strategy, and operating model, integrating internal context with live feedback to test cloud and Kubernetes environments, web applications, endpoints, and external attack surface. The work includes end-to-end vulnerability-management loops, human-in-the-loop safety controls, and production-grade infrastructure for safe, observable, continuous execution.

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Offensive Security Agent Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and lead OpenAI’s offensive security agents that continuously discover, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications. You’ll establish the agents’ architecture, evaluation strategy, and operating model, integrating internal context with live feedback to test cloud and Kubernetes environments, web applications, endpoints, and external attack surface. The work includes end-to-end vulnerability-management loops, human-in-the-loop safety controls, and production-grade infrastructure for safe, observable, continuous execution.
Location: New York, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the technical owner for OpenAI’s offensive security agents, defining architecture, technical direction, operating model, and evaluation strategy.
  • •Design and build a portfolio of specialized agents to continuously test infrastructure and applications from authenticated and unauthenticated perspectives.
  • •Translate offensive security workflows into tools, skills, harnesses, policies, and internal knowledge bases using internal context.
  • •Develop vulnerability-management loops from discovery through exploitability validation, impact documentation, remediation support, progress tracking, and fix verification.
  • •Build production-quality agent infrastructure with continuous operation, failure recovery, observability/debuggability, and safe human-in-the-loop guardrails.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 347,000 - 490,000 annually
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Substantial hands-on offensive security experience with strong judgment about which vulnerabilities and attack paths are worth pursuing.
  • •Extensive domain expertise in cloud security, Kubernetes/container security, web application security, and/or external attack-surface testing.
  • •Experience assessing complex, highly customized environments rather than relying mainly on standardized scanners or known-vulnerability detection.
  • •Ability to decompose ambiguous offensive security problems into reliable systems and encode expert reasoning/workflows into software.
  • •Built production-quality software and built or meaningfully extended agent systems using models, tools, structured context, memory, orchestration, and feedback loops.
Experience:Offensive securityCloud securityKubernetesWeb application securityAgent systemsAI
Skills:Technical ownershipOffensive security judgmentSystems thinkingEvaluation focusAttention to safety
Tech Stack:KubernetesLinuxMacOSCloudWeb applicationsModelsOrchestrationMemory

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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