Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Security

Location

San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Washington, DC, Remote - US

Full time

Security

• San Francisco, Seattle, New York $405K – $490K
  • Offers Equity

• Zone A $364.5K – $490K
  • Offers Equity

• Zone B $364.5K – $490K • $324K – $490K Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research  Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

We're seeking an exceptional Principal-level Offensive Security Engineer to challenge and strengthen OpenAI's security posture. This role isn't your typical red team job - it's an opportunity to engage broadly and deeply, craft innovative attack simulations, collaborate closely with defensive teams, and influence strategic security improvements across the organization.

You'll have the chance to not only find vulnerabilities but actively drive their resolution, automate offensive techniques with cutting-edge technologies, and use your unique attacker perspective to shape our security strategy.

This role will be primarily focused on continuously testing our agent powered products like codex and operator. These systems are uniquely valuable targets because they’re rapidly evolving, have access to perform sensitive actions on behalf of users, and have large, diverse attack surfaces. You will play a crucial role in securing our agents by hunting for realistic vulnerabilities that emerge from the interactions between the applications, infrastructure, and models that power them.

You will have:

• Continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the interactions between the applications, infrastructure, and models that power our agentic products.

• Conduct open-scope red and purple team operations, simulating realistic attack scenarios.

• Collaborate proactively with defensive security teams to enhance detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.

• Perform comprehensive penetration testing on our diverse suite of products.

• Leverage advanced automation and…