Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

This role sits on OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team working with customer security organizations to put AI into production for defensive use cases. The engineer partners directly with customer CISOs, security analysts, and engineers to build and deploy systems such as large-scale patch rollout tools or log analysis systems for detecting malicious activity. The role also involves building evaluations for these systems, guiding production rollout, and feeding lessons back to OpenAI's product and research teams.

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience shipping production software, with background in security engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or product engineering. Experience building and evaluating AI agents for software engineering workflows, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, ability to work in unfamiliar codebases, and strong communication skills with both engineers and senior security stakeholders. Additional experience in areas like application security, detection engineering, cloud/identity security, or agent security is a plus.