Security Engineer, Offensive
San Francisco, California, United States
About the Team
Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.
About the Role
As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of offensive security tactics to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in our systems with the goal of helping OpenAI improve its cyber defense. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security research, and will be a resolute team player. In this role, you will:
- Drive high leverage offensive security engagements and defensive improvements (in equal parts)
- Innovate to develop novel tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture
You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:
- Scoping and leading offensive security engagements against OpenAI’s services and infrastructure.
- Identifying vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI’s systems, communicating your findings, and contributing to solutions.
- Empowering the blue team by enabling measurement and validation of OpenAI’s defensive capabilities.
- Building enduring and high-trust partnerships with your colleagues across the organization.
- Thinking like an attacker and building like a defender.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- A track record of providing adversarial simulation that leads to impactful security growth.
- A strong background in penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security research
- Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills, and are concise and persuasive.
- Experience with public cloud providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) and a desire to become an expert at Azure infrastructure.
- Experience with Kubernetes infrastructure (container security, orchestration security, authentication/authorization, etc).
- Proficiency in programming (Python, Golang, or similar)
- Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.
Compensation, Benefits and Perks
The annual salary range for this role is $200,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Mental health and wellness support
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
- Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
- Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via accommodation@openai.com.
Tags: AWS Azure Blue team Cloud Cyber defense Exploit Golang Kubernetes Offensive security OpenAI Pentesting Privacy Python Vulnerabilities
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Startup environment Unlimited paid time off Wellness
More jobs like this
Explore more InfoSec / Cybersecurity career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Ethical Hacking, Pen Testing, Security Engineering, Threat Research, Vulnerability Management, Cryptography, Digital Forensics and Cyber Security in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Information Security Specialist jobs
- Open Senior Cyber Security Engineer jobs
- Open Ethical hacker / Pentester H/F jobs
- Open Principal Security Engineer jobs
- Open Cyber Security Architect jobs
- Open Staff Security Engineer jobs
- Open Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) jobs
- Open Product Security Engineer jobs
- Open Manager Pentest H/F jobs
- Open Cyber Security Specialist jobs
- Open Senior Information Security Analyst jobs
- Open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs
- Open Consultant infrastructure sécurité H/F jobs
- Open Chief Information Security Officer jobs
- Open IT Security Analyst jobs
- Open Cybersecurity Consultant jobs
- Open Consultant SOC / CERT H/F jobs
- Open Senior Information Security Engineer jobs
- Open Security Specialist jobs
- Open Senior Penetration Tester jobs
- Open Cybersecurity Specialist jobs
- Open Security Researcher jobs
- Open Senior Security Architect jobs
- Open IT Security Engineer jobs
- Open Sr. Security Engineer jobs
- Open CISM-related jobs
- Open Windows-related jobs
- Open Network security-related jobs
- Open ISO 27001-related jobs
- Open Pentesting-related jobs
- Open Application security-related jobs
- Open Agile-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Vulnerability management-related jobs
- Open SaaS-related jobs
- Open CISA-related jobs
- Open Analytics-related jobs
- Open IAM-related jobs
- Open Threat intelligence-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open Security assessment-related jobs
- Open Malware-related jobs
- Open DevOps-related jobs
- Open IDS-related jobs
- Open Security Clearance-related jobs
- Open CEH-related jobs
- Open EDR-related jobs
- Open Forensics-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs