AI Safety & Governance Full-time

Offensive Security Agent Engineer

OpenAI

Posted

Aug 07, 2026

Location

Remote (US)

Type

Full-time

Compensation

Up to $490000

Mission

What you will drive

  • In this role, you'll serve as technical owner of OpenAI's offensive security agents, establishing architecture and building agents that continuously test infrastructure and applications for vulnerabilities.
  • Design human-in-the-loop systems allowing offensive security engineers to approve dangerous actions, provide context, and redirect agent investigations.
  • Translate offensive security workflows and expertise into agent capabilities, tools, policies, and knowledge bases.
  • Build complete vulnerability-management loops.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

  • In this role, you'll serve as technical owner of OpenAI's offensive security agents, establishing architecture and building agents that continuously test infrastructure and applications for vulnerabilities.
  • Design human-in-the-loop systems allowing offensive security engineers to approve dangerous actions, provide context, and redirect agent investigations.
  • Translate offensive security workflows and expertise into agent capabilities, tools, policies, and knowledge bases.
  • Build complete vulnerability-management loops.

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OpenAI is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at OpenAI that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at OpenAI. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic, including concerns about OpenAI in particular. Note that there have also been concerns around OpenAI's HR practices.