Security Researcher, Security Products
Security Researcher, Security Products
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USD 325000 - 490000
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About the Team
Security Products is a new business unit on a mission to transform cybersecurity by leveraging AI to give defenders a decisive advantage. Were building products that tackle some of the hardest highest-impact problems in the field. Were starting with tools that are already proving their value internally at OpenAI helping to protect our own systems. We operate with speed purpose and a deep sense of responsibility partnering across engineering research and security to deliver real-world impact.
About the Role
As a Security Researcher on the Security Products team youll play a key role in developing the science and methods that power our AI-powered cybersecurity products. Youll work as part of a small team to develop security applications of LLMs to meaningful security problems and bring them to the world. This is a fast-moving high-impact role where youll collaborate closely with security experts AI researchers and other engineers to bring advanced AI capabilities into real-world security workflows. Youll help shape not just the product but also the technical foundation and engineering culture of a rapidly growing team with a critical mission.
Youll be responsible for:
Advancing the state of the art in applying LLMs/AI to real-world program analysis vulnerability analysis reverse engineering and secure development problems.
Designing experiments benchmarks and evaluation datasets to measure security efficacy model robustness and operator workflow impact.
Building research prototypes and iterating them into reliable secure user-ready product capabilities.
Partnering with internal and external researchers teams and design partners to understand high-value opportunities and use cases.
Collecting and structuring security data (code vulnerability data logs alerts) for performance benchmarking model training fine-tuning and retrieval workflows.
Developing and integrating model-driven detections reasoning agents and automated workflows into production systems and cloud environments.
Contributing to team engineering culture secure development practices and responsible AI use in security contexts.
Staying current on emerging threats attacker tradecraft and frontier AI techniques; translating insights into impact.
Were looking for someone with:
10 years of relevant security research experience.
Proficiency with program analysis techniques tools and technologies including disassemblers (e.g. IDA Pro Binary Ninja Ghidra) and fuzzing.
Proficiency with JavaScript React and other web technologies.
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Python Go or similar.
Experience with public cloud infrastructure (e.g. Azure AWS) and orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes Terraform).
Deep understanding of security-related practices such as secure coding threat modeling or detection systems.
Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required).
Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
