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Software Engineer, Codex Cyber

San Francisco$230k–$325kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Join OpenAI's Codex Cyber team to build AI-native application security products that help organizations detect and fix vulnerabilities at scale. You'll own full-stack features spanning user interfaces, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and security analysis pipelines in a fast-moving, early-stage product area.

What you'll do

  • Build end-to-end product features for Codex Security, from developer interfaces to APIs and backend services
  • Own 0-to-1 projects across product pods, platform security controls, and deployment workflows
  • Translate security research and model capabilities into intuitive vulnerability detection and remediation workflows
  • Design scalable systems for long-running security analyses across large codebases and enterprise environments
  • Collaborate with product, security research, infrastructure, and customer teams to iterate from real-world feedback
  • Help shape technical direction and architecture as the Codex Cyber platform grows

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack software engineering with strong fundamentals
  • Backend services and cloud infrastructure design
  • Developer tools and platform experience
  • Product thinking and technical UX sensibility
  • Ability to work across ambiguous 0-to-1 projects
  • Security domain knowledge (application security, vulnerability research, or secure workflows preferred but not required)
  • Scalable systems design
  • API and workflow design for technical users

Benefits

  • Work on cutting-edge AI-native security technology at OpenAI
  • Early-stage product with significant growth potential and impact
  • Full-stack ownership across product, platform, and infrastructure
  • Collaboration with world-class security research and infrastructure teams
  • San Francisco location
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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  • Walk us through a time you owned a 0-to-1 product feature from ambiguous requirements to production—what did you do to clarify scope and reduce risk?
  • Describe your experience building for technical users or developers. How do you balance feature richness with usability?
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