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Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government

OpenAI· OpenAI for Gov
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Hybrid (Washington, DC)$211k - $302k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Hands-on Applied AI Engineer with deep cybersecurity experience to help government and national security customers apply frontier AI to critical cyber missions. On-site with clients in the DMV area, delivering secure AI-powered cyber capabilities from prototype to operations.

Responsibilities

  • Work on-site with our clients in the DMV area
  • Own hands-on implementation for government cyber use cases, working alongside account-aligned technical owners, customer engineers, cyber operators, and security practitioners
  • Lead technical discovery to identify high-value AI applications across authorized red teaming, adversary emulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, malware analysis, and similar domains
  • Build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures using OpenAI models, supported APIs, Codex, and integrations with customers’ security tools and infrastructure
  • Design and run evaluations that measure technical correctness, security impact, reliability, and operator effectiveness, and use the results to guide implementation and deployment decisions
  • Partner with government security leaders, mission teams, account owners, integrators, and OpenAI Security and Product teams to establish success criteria, deliver measurable outcomes, and complete clear operational handoffs
  • Contribute reusable code, examples, and technical guidance to our open-source developer and enterprise resources
  • Scale the Applied AI Engineering function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing notebooks and implementation patterns to internal and external repositories
  • Translate customer deployments, operational insights, and evaluation results into actionable feedback for Product, Engineering, and Research teams

Qualifications

  • Hold an active TS/SCI clearance and a current, active full-scope polygraph
  • 7+ years of hands-on technical experience in cybersecurity, cyber operations, or security-focused software engineering, including work directly with government customers or national security mission teams
  • Practical experience across offensive and defensive cybersecurity, with depth in areas such as red teaming, adversary emulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, threat hunting, or detection engineering (NSA or comparable missions preferred)
  • Hands-on programming experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go; ability to integrate APIs, agents, command-line tools, and security platforms into reliable workflows
  • Knowledge of secure network and cloud architecture, identity and least privilege, restricted operating environments, application-security toolchains, authorization boundaries, and human-approved remediation
  • Experience with toolchains such as GitHub, CodeQL, Snyk, Semgrep, SARIF, Jira, and CI/CD systems
  • Strong communication skills to translate technical findings for practitioners, engineers, and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end and learn unfamiliar tools or mission requirements as needed
  • Collaborative mindset, willingness to share knowledge, and ability to drive multiple projects with urgency and high technical standards
  • Hands-on coding experience and experience delivering cyber capabilities or security automation

Skills

Required:TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraphcybersecurity domain knowledgePythonJavaScript/TypeScriptOpenAI models, APIs, CodexSecurity tooling integrationCommunication
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching and wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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