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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

OpenAI · Posted Nov 5, 2026

San Francisco, California, United States
Hybrid
Full-time · Mid
5+ years

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Build systems that give defenders an advantage at a scale few engineering teams encounter, partnering with customer security teams and OpenAI’s product and research groups.

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. Integrate agents into security workflows, establish access boundaries, and determine which actions require human review.
Build evaluations grounded in the decisions defenders make. For a patching agent, test whether a fix blocks a known exploit while preserving expected application behavior. For a detection system, replay historical attacks alongside normal traffic to measure detection speed and false-positive rates.
Guide production rollout with the engineers who will operate the system. Provide the 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

Nice to have: security curiosity
Nice to have: security community engagement
Nice to have: application security
Nice to have: fuzzing harnesses
Nice to have: vulnerability research

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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

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Requirements

Skills