Software Engineer, Cyber Safeguards

The role

You will lead technical work for cyber safeguard infrastructure within the Preparedness team. You will build reliable systems to support cyber evaluations, research workflows, and safe deployment of capabilities.

What you will do

• Drive technical direction and hands-on execution for cyber safeguard infrastructure.
• Establish production-quality reliability, observability, on-call, and SLA/SLO practices.
• Partner with security, research, policy and product teams to translate needs into platforms.
• Lead cross-functional technical work and unblock collaborators.
• Build reliable systems that support cyber evaluations and research workflows.
• Improve scalability, usability, and operational safety of cyber safeguards.
• Mentor teammates and raise the engineering bar.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience owning large-scale production systems, including reliability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
• Senior/staff-level technical leadership with a track record of driving ambiguous, cross-functional work, especially in cybersecurity.
• Strong hands-on software engineering and systems-design skills.
• Ability to collaborate closely with researchers and independently turn evolving research needs into robust infrastructure.
• Experience thinking and communicating about cyber capability, misuse risk, access patterns, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs in high-stakes environments.

Nice to have

• Experience at a security company, supporting cyber evaluations, or building security/reliability infrastructure
• Experience moving from strong engineering into research support
• Former engineering managers who remain deeply technical and hands-on

About the company

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