Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - NYC

Job Description

About the Team

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team builds with customers to bring frontier AI into production. Our Cyber FDEs partner with the security and engineering teams that defend globally critical systems, from enterprise software to the core infrastructure it runs on.

About the Role

You'll build systems that give defenders an advantage at a scale few engineering teams encounter. You might help an enterprise identify, test, and deploy patches across hundreds of thousands of code repositories, or help a security team analyze petabytes of logs for signs of malicious agents or coordinated attacks.

Responsibilities

• 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 the decisions defenders make.
• Guide production rollout with the engineers who will operate the system.
• Translate successful approaches across deployments into reusable tools and engineering practices that other defenders can adopt.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production software.
• Experience protecting production systems through work in 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.

Additional Experience

While we're primarily looking for strong engineering generalists, we'd love to hear about deeper experience in any of the following areas:

• Security curiosity and experimentation
• Security community engagement
• Application security
• Automated remediation
• Detection engineering
• Cloud and identity security
• Security research
• Agent security

What We Offer

• Salary: $185K - $300K
• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
• Relocation assistance
• Travel up to 50% is required