Software Engineer Frontend, Security Products

About the Team

Security Products is on a mission to transform cybersecurity by leveraging AI to give defenders a decisive advantage.

Born out of OpenAIs security research program and incubated with Sam Altmans encouragement the Security Products team is taking the breakthroughs weve developed internally and bringing them to the world. Our tools are already protecting OpenAIs own systems and were looking to scale their impact to the world.

We are a lean high-caliber team operating at the frontier of AI and security. We blend security research with product engineering to explore whats possible build whats practical and give defenders an unprecedented advantage all while advancing the science of AI-driven security itself.

About the Role

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on this team youll help invent and build the next generation of AI-powered cybersecurity products. Youll work across the stackdesigning user-facing features building backend systems integrating new AI capabilities and ensuring our products are robust reliable and impactful.

This is a fast-moving high-ownership role. Youll collaborate closely with security experts AI researchers and product engineers shaping both the technical foundation and the product direction of a team that is scaling quickly. You dont need to be a security engineer to succeed here just someone excited to solve meaningful problems and build tools that materially improve defenders capabilities.

What youll do:

• Build deploy and maintain applications and systems that bring advanced AI-driven security capabilities to real users.

• Work directly with internal and external customers to deeply understand their workflows and translate them into intuitive powerful product experiences.

• Design and build efficient and reusable frontend systems that drive complex web applications.

• Plan and deploy frontend infrastructure necessary to build test and deploy our products.

• Collaborate across OpenAIs product research engineering and security organizations to maximize impact.

• Help shape the engineering culture architecture and processes of a new business unit with a critical mission.

What were looking for:

• 3 years of relevant engineering experience at technology and product-driven companies.

• Experience building production web applications at scale using TypeScript React and other web technologies.

• Familiarity with public cloud environments (Azure or AWS) and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes Terraform etc.).

• Are comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up with limited development infrastructure available to you.

• Are intrinsically driven to learn and fill in missing skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where problems may be ambiguous emerging or rapidly evolving.

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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