Base Salary
$278k - $490k/yr
Responsibilities
- Continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in interactions among the applications, infrastructure, and models powering OpenAI’s agentic products.
- Conduct open-scope red and purple team operations that simulate realistic attack scenarios.
- Collaborate with defensive security teams to improve detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
- Perform comprehensive penetration testing across OpenAI’s products.
- Use advanced automation and OpenAI technologies to improve offensive security work.
- Present clear, actionable findings to drive impactful security improvements.
- Influence security strategy through attacker-driven insights into risk and threat modeling.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on red team experience or exceptional accomplishments demonstrating equivalent expertise.
- Deep expertise conducting offensive security operations within modern technology companies.
- Experience designing, developing, or testing the security of AI-powered systems.
- Experience finding, exploiting, and mitigating AI vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, confused deputies, and dynamically generated UI components.
- Exceptional code-review skills and the ability to identify novel and subtle vulnerabilities.
- Experience conducting offensive security assessments in at least one hyperscaler cloud environment, preferably Azure.
- Mastery of Kubernetes clusters, container environments, GitHub security, macOS and Linux, data science tooling and environments, Python-based web services, and React-based frontend applications.
- Strong understanding of trust boundaries and risk assessment in dynamic contexts.
- Excellent coding skills for building robust offensive-security tools and automation.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts through compelling storytelling.
- Track record of both finding vulnerabilities and contributing to solutions in complex codebases.
- Background in AI or data science, startup experience, or experience in software engineering, detection engineering, site reliability engineering, security engineering, or IT infrastructure is advantageous.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.