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About the Team Enterprise Security protects the systems, identities, devices, and services that enable OpenAI's employees to work securely and effectively. We partner across IT and Security to understand risk, build practical defenses, and support a rapidly evolving technical environment. About the Role We are looking for an Enterprise Security Engineer with a focus on vulnerability management, novel vulnerabilities, and zero-day response. You will investigate vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across networks, endpoints, and SaaS, prioritize them in the context of real exposure, and drive remediation through verified outcomes. You will also build security capabilities and automation, use AI agents to solve practical problems, and help shape how enterprise security operates as agents become a larger part of everyday work. This role is open to candidates in San Francisco, CA, and to remote candidates in the United States. In this role, you will: - Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise systems, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days with incomplete information and no established playbook. - Translate technical findings into clear attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation. - Develop and validate emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable, coordinate with system owners, vendors, and incident responders, and drive durable fixes through verified closure. - 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. - Contribute across endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS security, and support incident investigations when needed. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have independently investigated novel or emerging vulnerabilities and driven enterprise remediation from uncertain initial reports through mitigation and verified closure. - Bring technical depth in a relevant security domain and working knowledge across networks, endpoints, and SaaS. - Can understand and improve code and safely integrate APIs and security systems. - Have solved substantive problems using AI agents and can explain how you evaluated and corrected their work. - Think clearly about security tradeoffs, ambiguous evidence, and the changing risks of agentic systems. - Collaborate effectively, take ownership, and communicate technical risk to varied audiences. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement cdn.openai.com. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form form.asana.com. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link form.asana.com. OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy cdn.openai.com At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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About the Team
You will also build security capabilities and automation, use AI agents to solve practical problems, and help shape how enterprise security operates as agents become a larger part of everyday work.
This role is open to candidates in San Francisco, CA, and to remote candidates in the United States.
Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise systems, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days with incomplete information and no established playbook.
Translate technical findings into clear attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation.
Develop and validate emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable, coordinate with system owners, vendors, and incident responders, and drive durable fixes through verified closure.
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.
Contribute across endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS security, and support incident investigations when needed.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have independently investigated novel or emerging vulnerabilities and driven enterprise remediation from uncertain initial reports through mitigation and verified closure.
Bring technical depth in a relevant security domain and working knowledge across networks, endpoints, and SaaS.
Can understand and improve code and safely integrate APIs and security systems.
Have solved substantive problems using AI agents and can explain how you evaluated and corrected their work.
Think clearly about security tradeoffs, ambiguous evidence, and the changing risks of agentic systems.
Collaborate effectively, take ownership, and communicate technical risk to varied audiences.

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