OpenAI

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior

HYBRID

OpenAI is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) focused on cybersecurity to join their San Francisco team. In this role, you'll work directly with enterprise security teams to design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems that help defenders protect critical infrastructure. You'll partner with CISOs, frontline analysts, and customer engineers to integrate AI agents into real security workflows—covering areas like automated patch deployment, log analysis, detection engineering, and production rollout. This is a highly technical, customer-facing role requiring up to 50% travel and at least...

Python

Software engineering

AI agent development

CI/CD pipelines

Security engineering

Production system operations

System design

Technical communication

Codebase navigation

Evaluation design

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