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Red Team - Cyber

OpenAI· Intelligence & Investigations
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (Seattle), Hybrid (Washington, DC)$198k - $320k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Red Teamer focused on cyber to evaluate model capabilities and safeguards against adversarial techniques, combining scaled evaluation with expert-driven testing across cybersecurity and AI model evaluation domains.

Responsibilities

  • Design and run rigorous evaluations of model cyber capabilities and safeguards, including policy adherence, correct refusal, over refusal, and resilience to jailbreaking and other adversarial techniques.
  • Conduct hands-on testing to understand what models can enable when used by experienced security practitioners, including through task-specific harnesses, scaffolding, and multi-step workflows.
  • Distinguish benchmark or policy failures from behavior that creates meaningful real-world risk, considering feasibility, attacker uplift, reliability, and the capabilities already available elsewhere.
  • Build and improve automated testing infrastructure that supports repeatable measurement, rapid iteration, and statistically grounded analysis across models and product surfaces.
  • Test novel abuse risks in agentic systems, including indirect prompt injection, agent hijacking, and other ways adversaries may manipulate systems that use tools or act on external information.
  • Translate findings into clear risk assessments and actionable recommendations for Security, Research, Product, Policy, and Engineering partners.
  • Contribute a portion of your time to Safety Bug Bounty work, particularly where reports require cyber expertise.

Qualifications

  • Substantial depth in at least one of: cybersecurity (application security, penetration testing, vulnerability research, adversary simulation, red-team operations) or AI model evaluation (eval design, harnesses, automated adversarial testing, data set construction, scaling analysis).
  • Working literacy across both cybersecurity and model evaluation with interest to deepen outside primary area.
  • Ability to write code and build practical testing tools for automating experiments, orchestrating models, or analyzing results.
  • Attacker mindset and interest in discovering failure modes not captured by standard evaluations.
  • Clear written and verbal communication to explain technical findings, limitations, and risk to diverse audiences.
  • Experience working across technical and non-technical teams to move from finding to mitigation or follow-up test.

Skills

Required:Cybersecurity expertise (application security, penetration testing, vulnerability research, adversary simulation, red-team operations)AI model evaluation

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for 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 multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, 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 our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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