Applied AI Engineer, Cyber | Tokyo

The role

You will partner with customers to apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to cybersecurity use cases. You will act as a technical lead for AI-enabled workflows, building prototypes and advising on safe implementation patterns.

What you will do

• Embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows.
• Lead discovery across various security use cases including AppSec, DevSecOps, and SOC/IR.
• Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, and reference architectures.
• Scope pilots with success criteria, data requirements, and security constraints.
• Advise customers on safe implementation patterns like tool calling, retrieval, and guardrails.
• Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details.
• Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, and assessment templates.
• Deliver high-signal feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams.

Required 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 in areas such as application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intellige
• Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and 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
• Understanding of how to design AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to scope pilots from ambiguous customer pain.
• Evidence-first security judgment.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end and operate with high throughput across multiple concurrent customer projects.

Benefits

• Relocation support

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.