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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. Across these deployments, you’ll build tools that customer engineers can trust to support consequential security decisions. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Security curiosity and experimentation: You read CVE write-ups because you want to understand how things break. You may have built an agent honeypot to test a hypothesis—or prove a point—and enjoy turning a security question into a hands-on experiment
- Security community engagement: You enjoy exchanging ideas with defenders, whether that’s 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: CI/CD is your happy place. 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
More about this role
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. Cyber FDEs work closely with our Product, Research, and Go-to-Market teams to adapt our products and models to what customers need to defend their systems.
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. Across these deployments, you’ll build tools that customer engineers can trust to support consequential security decisions.
You’ll work directly with customer security teams, from CISOs to frontline analysts. As AI changes how attackers operate, you’ll help these teams determine where their defenses need to evolve, prioritize what to build, and validate solutions with the engineers who will operate them. Alongside OpenAI’s account teams, you’ll...
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