Security Researcher, Codex Security

About the Team:

Security is at the foundation of OpenAIs mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Codex Security is OpenAIs first security agent built to scan GitHub Cloud repositories validate real vulnerabilities and integrate with Codex to help generate fixes.

About the Role:

Lead an effort to map characterize and prioritize cross-layer vulnerabilities in advanced AI systems spanning data pipelines training/inference runtimes system and supply chain components. Youll drive offensive research produce technical deliverables enhance the Codex Security product line and serve as OpenAIs primary technical counterpart for select external partners (including potential U.S. government stakeholders).

What youll do:

• Conduct deep security research on real-world software systems to discover complex vulnerabilities across large codebases and distributed architectures.

• Investigate and validate vulnerabilities discovered by AI-driven security agents including building proofs-of-concept and exploit demonstrations.

• Partner with engineering teams to improve automated vulnerability discovery validation and remediation workflows as part of product development.

• Build high quality security datasets and evals that will help advance models cybersecurity capabilities

• Train and improve AI models used for vulnerability discovery validation and automated remediation by developing datasets evaluations and feedback loops grounded in real-world security research.

• Publish technical writeups research insights and vulnerability analyses that advance the state of application security.

You may thrive if you:

• Have strong experience in vulnerability research exploit development or offensive security.

• Have deep experience with cutting edge offensive-security techniques

• Are fluent across AI/ML infrastructure (data training inference schedulers accelerators) and can threat-model end-to-end.

• Operate independently align diverse teams and deliver on tight timelines.

• Communicate clearly and concisely with experts and decision-makers.

• Care deeply about improving the security of widely used software and open-source infrastructure.

• Are a strong developer who can work in a small energetic team

Goals & impact:

• Build AI-driven systems that can discover high-impact vulnerabilities in widely deployed systems and open-source software before attackers do.

• Improve the precision and effectiveness of AI-driven security agents by grounding them in real-world vulnerability research.

Key technical challenges:

• System-level vulnerability discovery identifying complex vulnerabilities that span multiple services trust boundaries or components.

• High-confidence validation distinguishing real exploitable vulnerabilities from speculative or theoretical issues.

• Scaling security research with AI agents guiding automated systems to analyze millions of commits while maintaining research-level rigor.

• Automated exploit and proof-of-concept generation building reproducible demonstrations of vulnerabilities within sandboxed environments.

• Building large systems that work within OpenAIs enterprise architecture

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.

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