# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185K - $300K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Job Overview

We're seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber, to join our team in San Francisco. You'll work with customers to bring frontier AI into production, partnering with security and engineering teams to defend globally critical systems. Your work will involve building systems that give defenders an advantage at scale, collaborating with customer security teams, and helping them determine where their defenses need to evolve.

## 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, integrating agents into security workflows, establishing access boundaries, and determining which actions require human review.

- Build evaluations grounded in the decisions defenders make, testing whether a fix blocks a known exploit while preserving expected application behavior.

- Guide production rollout with the engineers who will operate the system, providing observability and controls they need to understand system behavior, intervene when necessary, and expand adoption with confidence.

- 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.

## Nice to Have

- Security curiosity and experimentation: You read CVE write-ups to understand how things break, and enjoy turning a security question into a hands-on experiment.

- Security community engagement: You enjoy exchanging ideas with defenders, discussing security strategy with a CISO at Black Hat, or comparing technical approaches with frontline practitioners.

- Application security: You've written CodeQL queries or Semgrep rules, built fuzzing harnesses, or discovered and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities.

- Automated remediation: You've built tooling that turns security findings into tested patches, dependency upgrades, or configuration changes across large codebases.

- Detection engineering: You've written and deployed detections using Sigma, YARA, Splunk, or KQL, and tested them against attacker behavior.

- Cloud and identity security: You've designed cloud IAM architectures and investigated abuse of workload identities, role hierarchies, or cross-account trust.

- Security research: You've reverse-engineered malware, developed exploit reproductions, or contributed to vulnerability research.

- Agent security: You've tested agents for prompt injection, tool misuse, or credential exposure, and built defenses against them.

## What We Offer

- Salary: $185K - $300K

- Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office per week

- Relocation assistance

- Travel up to 50% is required

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## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- security engineering
- CI/CD pipelines
- AI agents
- cloud security

### Nice to have
- application security
- automated remediation
- detection engineering
- cloud and identity security
- security research

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