OpenAI

AI Deployment Engineer, Cyber

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Base Salary

$234k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical lead and trusted partner for strategic customers deploying AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows.
  • Lead discovery across application security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC and incident response, detection engineering, red teaming, cloud security, identity, and GRC automation.
  • Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI technologies and common security tooling.
  • Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
  • Advise customers on safe implementation patterns involving tool and function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
  • Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details.
  • Create reusable field assets including demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection handling, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.
  • Synthesize customer feedback and communicate requirements, blockers, product gaps, and emerging cyber workflows to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and go-to-market teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
  • Strong cybersecurity expertise in one or more areas including application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical security practitioners.
  • Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, logs, tickets, scanners, or other security tooling.
  • Understanding of AI workflow design involving retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evaluations, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Experience scoping customer pilots with success metrics, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.
  • Evidence-first security judgment, including validating findings, distinguishing true positives from noise, documenting assumptions, and avoiding overstated model or security claims.
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end across multiple concurrent customer projects and create reusable leverage for broader field teams.

Benefits

  • Based at the San Francisco headquarters.
  • Relocation support is offered to new employees.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
OpenAI

About OpenAI

10,000+ employees

OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.

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