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Applied AI Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI· Go To Market
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York City)$234k - $335k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Cybersecurity-focused Applied AI Engineer role partnering with customers to apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases in a customer-facing technical capacity.

Responsibilities

  • Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, serving as a trusted partner to both security executives and technical practitioners.
  • Lead discovery across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, detection engineering, red team, cloud security, identity, and GRC automation use cases.
  • Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, and common security tools.
  • Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
  • Advise customers on safe implementation patterns, including tool and function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
  • Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details so each audience understands value, risk, and practical next steps.
  • Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection handling, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.
  • Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams based on recurring customer requirements, blockers, product gaps, and emerging cyber workflows.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
  • Strong cybersecurity domain expertise across one or more areas such as application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical security practitioners.
  • Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or other common security tooling.
  • Understanding of AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Comfort with scoping pilots from ambiguous customer pain, including success metrics, required data, workflow integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.
  • Evidence-first security judgment: validate findings, separate true positives from noise, document assumptions, and avoid overstating model or security claims.
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end, operate with high throughput across multiple concurrent customer projects, and know when to stay hands-on versus create reusable leverage.
  • Humility, teamwork mindset, and a willingness to do what it takes to make the team and customers successful.

Skills

Required:AI-enabled cybersecurity workflowsOpenAI APIs, Codex, agentsSecurity domain expertise (AppSec, Cloud Security, Identity, etc.)

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
  • 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 multiple paid coordinated company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by law)
  • 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
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends (additional fringe benefits)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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