Applied AI Architect (Cybersecurity)

Location: Vancouver, Canada; hybrid workplace

Salary: CA$236K–CA$262.5K, plus equity and commission.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing general-purpose AI systems and products with a focus on safe deployment.

What you will do

• Partner with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows.
• Lead discovery across application security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC and incident response, detection engineering, cloud security, identity, red teaming, and GRC automation.
• Build customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, and security tools.
• Scope pilots with success criteria, data requirements, integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
• Advise on retrieval, structured outputs, tool and function calling, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
• Create reusable field assets and synthesize customer feedback for Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Strong cybersecurity expertise in one or more areas including application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
• Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical practitioners.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or comparable security tooling.
• Understanding of AI workflows involving retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evaluations, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to scope pilots from ambiguous customer problems, including metrics, data, integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.
• Evidence-first security judgment: validating findings, separating true positives from noise, documenting assumptions, and avoiding overstated model or security claims.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end, manage multiple concurrent customer projects, and balance hands-on work with reusable field leverage.
• Humble, collaborative attitude and willingness to help colleagues and customers succeed.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Vancouver, Canada.
• Full-time employment with equity and commission opportunities.
• Collaboration across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM.
• Commitment to safe AI deployment, equal opportunity, reasonable accommodations, and legally compliant background checks.