Security Engineer Offensive Security
Security Engineer Offensive Security
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USD 364500 - 490000
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About the Team
Security is at the foundation of OpenAIs mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
The Security team protects OpenAIs technology people and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact enabling researchers preparing for future transformative technologies and engaging a robust security culture.
About the Role
Were seeking an exceptional Security Engineer on the Offensive Security team to challenge and strengthen OpenAIs security posture. This role isnt your typical red team job its an opportunity to engage broadly and deeply craft innovative attack simulations collaborate closely with defensive teams and influence strategic security improvements across the organization.
Youll have the chance to not only find vulnerabilities but actively drive their resolution automate offensive techniques with cuttingedge technologies and use your unique attacker perspective to shape our security strategy.
This role is open to remote employees or relocation assistance is available to one of our OpenAI offices in San Francisco Seattle or New York City.
In this role you will:
Conduct openscope red and purple team operations simulating realistic attack scenarios.
Collaborate proactively with defensive security teams to enhance detection response and mitigation capabilities.
Perform comprehensive penetration testing on our diverse suite of products.
Leverage advanced automation and OpenAI technologies to optimize your offensive security work.
Present insightful actionable findings clearly and compellingly to inspire impactful change.
Influence security strategy by providing attackerdriven insights into risk and threat modeling.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
7 years of handson red team experience or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise.
Deep expertise conducting offensive security operations within modern technology companies.
Proven experience performing offensive security assessments in at least one hyperscaler cloud environment (Azure preferred).
Demonstrated mastery assessing complex technology stacks including:
Highly customized Kubernetes clusters
Container environments
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub security
macOS and Linux operating systems
Data science tooling and environments
Pythonbased web services
Reactbased frontend applications
Exceptional skill in code review identifying novel and subtle vulnerabilities.
Strong intuitive understanding of trust boundaries and risk assessment in dynamic contexts.
Excellent coding skills capable of writing robust tools and automation for offensive operations.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively through compelling storytelling.
Proven track record of not just finding vulnerabilities but actively contributing to solutions in complex codebases.
Additional desired qualifications:
Active U.S. Government Security Clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
Experience testing AIdriven systems.
Background or expertise in AI or data science.
Prior experience working in tech startups or fastpaced technology environments.
Experience in related disciplines such as Software Engineering (SWE) Detection Engineering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Security Engineering or IT Infrastructure.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race religion national origin gender sexual orientation age veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Employment Type
Full-Time
