Forward Deployed Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI

. Partner with customer security leaders and OpenAI’s Go-to-Market team to scope engagements, establish responsibilities, and define measurable success criteria .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $234,000 - $385,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on security, including building and evaluating AI agents and implementing CI/CD practices. Capable of translating technical concepts for diverse stakeholders while ensuring production systems are secure and reliable.

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Software Engineering ExperienceSecurity EngineeringAI Agent DevelopmentCI/CD Pipeline ManagementApplication Security

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringSecurity EngineeringAI Agent DevelopmentCI/CD PracticesApplication SecurityAutomated RemediationDetection EngineeringCloud SecurityIdentity SecurityInfrastructure Management

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationTechnical Leadership

Industry Keywords

Production SystemsDevOpsSRESecurity WorkflowsOperational DecisionsFalse-Positive RatesObservabilityEngineering PracticesSecurity ResearchHuman Review

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with customer security leaders and OpenAI’s Go-to-Market team to scope engagements, establish responsibilities, and define measurable success criteria
Lead technical design and implementation alongside customer engineers
Integrate agents into security workflows, establish access boundaries, and determine which actions require human review
Build evaluations grounded in defenders’ operational decisions
Test patching agents against known exploits while preserving expected application behavior
Replay historical attacks alongside normal traffic to measure detection speed and false-positive rates
Guide production rollouts with engineers who will operate the systems
Provide observability and controls to support understanding, intervention, and confident adoption
Translate successful approaches across deployments into reusable tools and engineering practices
Partner with Research and Product to define, build, and test capabilities addressing defender needs

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production software
Experience protecting production systems through security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering
Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices that maintain code quality, reliability, and security
Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute maintainable, production-quality changes
Ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to engineering teams and senior security stakeholders
Experience with application security, automated remediation, detection engineering, cloud and identity security, security research, or agent security is advantageous

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)
Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays
Multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year
Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend
Daily meals in offices
Meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Charitable donation matching
Wellness stipends