Software Engineer - Frontend, Security Products

Software Engineer - Frontend, Security Products | OpenAI

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Security Products - San Francisco

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Security Products is on a mission to transform cybersecurity by leveraging AI to give defenders a decisive advantage.

Born out of OpenAI’s security research program and incubated with Sam Altman’s encouragement, the Security Products team is taking the breakthroughs we’ve developed internally and bringing them to the world. Our tools are already protecting OpenAI’s own systems, and we’re looking to scale their impact to the world.

We are a lean, high-caliber team operating at the frontier of AI and security. We blend security research with product engineering to explore what’s possible, build what’s practical, and give defenders an unprecedented advantage – all while advancing the science of AI-driven security itself.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer on this team, you’ll help invent and build the next generation of AI-powered cybersecurity products. You’ll work across the stack—designing user-facing features, building backend systems, integrating new AI capabilities, and ensuring our products are robust, reliable, and impactful.

This is a fast-moving, high-ownership role. You’ll collaborate closely with security experts, AI researchers, and product engineers, shaping both the technical foundation and the product direction of a team that is scaling quickly. You don’t need to be a security engineer to succeed here – just someone excited to solve meaningful problems and build tools that materially improve defenders’ capabilities.

• Build, deploy, and maintain applications and systems that bring advanced AI-driven security capabilities to real users.

• Work directly with internal and external customers to deeply understand their workflows and translate them into intuitive, powerful product experiences.

• Design and build efficient and reusable frontend systems that drive complex web applications.

• Plan and deploy frontend infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy our products.

• Collaborate across OpenAI’s product, research, engineering, and security organizations to maximize impact.

• Help shape the engineering culture, architecture, and processes of a new business unit with a critical mission.

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience at technology and product-driven companies.

• Experience building production web applications at scale using Type Script, React and other web technologies.

• Familiarity with public cloud environments (Azure or AWS) and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.).

• Are comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up, with limited development infrastructure available to you.

• Are intrinsically driven to learn and fill in missing skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where problems may be ambiguous, emerging, or rapidly evolving.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general‑purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affi’cative’Authant’ion’ EEqual Employ’ment Outcome’ Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance…