Openai
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - NYC
New York City, Remote. Posted 7 days ago
The role
You will build systems that give defenders an advantage at scale. You will partner with customer security leaders to scope engagements, implement technical designs, and build evaluations for AI agents and detection systems.
What you will do
- Partner with customer security leaders and Go-to-Market team to scope engagements and define success criteria.
- Lead technical design and implementation alongside customer engineers.
- Integrate agents into security workflows and establish access boundaries.
- Build evaluations grounded in the decisions defenders make.
- Guide production rollout with engineers who will operate the system.
- Provide observability and controls for system behavior.
- Translate successful approaches into reusable tools and engineering practices.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production software.
- Experience protecting production systems through work in security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering.
- Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices that maintain code quality, reliability, and security.
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute maintainable, production-quality changes.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to engineering teams and senior security stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Security curiosity and experimentation
- Security community engagement
- Application security
- Automated remediation
- Detection engineering
- Cloud and identity security
- Security research
- Agent security
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
Before you apply
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.
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.