Enterprise Security Engineer (Vulnerability Management)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California, or remote in the United States.

Salary: $347,000–$445,000 base annually, plus equity and eligible performance-related bonuses.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and safely deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise networks, endpoints, identities, and SaaS, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days.
• Translate technical findings into attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation plans.
• Develop emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable, coordinate with system owners, vendors, and incident responders, and drive verified closure of durable fixes.
• Improve asset visibility, ownership, vulnerability data quality, and reporting.
• Build and operate security tools and integrations using code, APIs, automation, and AI agents.
• Design controls for agent access, execution, and accountability, and support incident investigations when needed.

Requirements

• Independent experience investigating novel or emerging vulnerabilities and driving enterprise remediation from uncertain initial reports through mitigation and verified closure.
• Technical depth in a relevant security domain and working knowledge across networks, endpoints, and SaaS.
• Ability to understand and improve code and safely integrate APIs and security systems.
• Experience solving substantive problems using AI agents and explaining how their work was evaluated and corrected.
• Ability to assess security tradeoffs, ambiguous evidence, and the changing risks of agentic systems.
• Effective collaboration, ownership, and communication of technical risk to varied audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in San Francisco or remote work from the United States.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, paid parental and medical leave, paid time off, paid holidays, and sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support, employer-paid basic life and disability coverage, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals, eligible meal delivery credits, relocation support for eligible employees, charitable donation matching, and wellness stipends.

Hiring process

• More detailed benefits information is provided during the hiring process.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law for US-based candidates.