Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products

OpenAI
San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington, United States
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 364,500 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Leadership","Analytical thinking"]

Principal-level Offensive Security Engineer to improve OpenAI’s security posture by conducting open-scope red/purple team operations, developing attack simulations, and automating offensive techniques. Focused on agent-powered products (e.g., Codex/Operator), you’ll hunt for vulnerabilities at the intersections of apps, infrastructure, and models, collaborate with defense teams, and influence risk-driven security strategy across the organization.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
9 months ago

Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products

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Job Summary

Principal-level Offensive Security Engineer to improve OpenAI’s security posture by conducting open-scope red/purple team operations, developing attack simulations, and automating offensive techniques. Focused on agent-powered products (e.g., Codex/Operator), you’ll hunt for vulnerabilities at the intersections of apps, infrastructure, and models, collaborate with defense teams, and influence risk-driven security strategy across the organization.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington, United States
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the interactions between applications, infrastructure, and models powering agentic products.
  • •Conduct open-scope red and purple team operations, simulating realistic attack scenarios.
  • •Collaborate with defensive security teams to enhance detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
  • •Perform comprehensive penetration testing on our diverse suite of products.
  • •Leverage automation and OpenAI technologies to optimize offensive security work.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 364,500 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of hands-on red team experience or equivalent achievements
  • •Deep expertise in offensive security operations within modern technology companies
  • •Experience designing, developing, or testing AI-powered security systems
  • •Experience finding, exploiting and mitigating vulnerabilities in AI systems (e.g., prompt injection, data leakage)
  • •Strong code review skills and ability to build robust tools for offensive operations
Experience:7+ yearsAISecurityCloudKubernetesPythonReact
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationLeadershipAnalytical thinking
Tech Stack:KubernetesContainer environmentsCI/CDGitHubMacOSLinuxPythonReactWeb services

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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Glassdoor: 4.4
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