Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber- NYC

Location: New York City, United States; hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week. San Francisco is also listed as an additional location. Travel up to 50% is required; relocation assistance is offered.

Salary: $185K–$300K plus equity.

Company

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

What you will do

• Partner with customer security leaders and Go-to-Market teams to scope engagements, define responsibilities, and establish measurable success criteria.
• Design and implement security systems with customer engineers, including agent integrations, access boundaries, and human-review controls.
• Build evaluations for patching and detection systems using known exploits, historical attacks, normal traffic, detection speed, and false-positive rates.
• Guide production rollouts by providing observability and controls for system understanding, intervention, and adoption.
• Translate successful deployment approaches into reusable tools and engineering practices for other defenders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production software.
• Experience protecting production systems through security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering.
• Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices that maintain code quality, reliability, and security.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute maintainable, production-quality changes.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to engineering teams and senior security stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Security experimentation, including understanding vulnerabilities, building agent honeypots, and turning security questions into hands-on experiments.
• Security community engagement with CISOs and frontline defenders.
• Application security experience with CodeQL, Semgrep, fuzzing harnesses, or responsible vulnerability disclosure.
• Automated remediation experience creating tested patches, dependency upgrades, or configuration changes across large codebases.
• Detection engineering experience with Sigma, YARA, Splunk, or KQL.
• Cloud and identity security experience, including IAM architectures and workload identity, role hierarchy, or cross-account trust investigations.
• Security research involving malware reverse engineering, exploit reproductions, or vulnerability research.
• Agent security experience testing prompt injection, tool misuse, or credential exposure and building defenses.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with customer security teams, including CISOs and frontline analysts, alongside Product, Research, and Go-to-Market teams.
• Hybrid work with three office days per week in New York City.
• Travel of up to 50% is required.
• Relocation assistance is available.
• Full-time employment with salary, equity, and reasonable accommodation support.