Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government

The role

You will help government and national security customers apply frontier AI to critical cyber missions. You will build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures using OpenAI models.

What you will do

• Work on-site with clients in the DMV area
• Own hands-on implementation for government cyber use cases
• Lead technical discovery to identify high-value AI applications
• Build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures
• Design and run evaluations to measure technical correctness and security impact
• Partner with government security leaders and OpenAI teams to deliver outcomes
• Contribute reusable code, examples, and technical guidance to resources
• Scale the Applied AI Engineering function by sharing knowledge and publishing patterns
• Translate customer deployments and insights into feedback for Product, Engineering, and Research teams

Required qualifications

• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance and a current, active full-scope polygraph
• 7+ years of hands-on technical experience in cybersecurity, cyber operations, or security-focused software engineering
• Experience working directly with government customers or national security mission teams
• Practical experience across offensive and defensive cybersecurity
• Experience writing code, integrating security tools, and building/deploying cyber capabilities
• Understand secure network and cloud architecture, identity and least privilege, and restricted operating environments
• Hands-on programming experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go
• Ability to integrate APIs, agents, command-line tools, and security platforms into workflows

Nice to have

• Experience supporting NSA or comparable national security cyber missions

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.