Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats
At a glance
Highlights
- Urgent, fast‑paced research
- Focus on AI‑agent security threats
- High compensation range
Why this role might suit you
A candidate with deep security expertise and strong software‑engineering skills will thrive shaping defenses against emerging AI‑agent threats in a high‑impact, well‑compensated role.
Skills
About the role
ABOUT THE TEAM
Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity.
Our work involves:
1. Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
2. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future.
3. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets.
This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As AI agents become more capable at software engineering, and automate more of our internal work, they could become a dangerous cyber threat. People in this role will help OpenAI prepare for security threats from advanced AI agent insiders.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Identify paths by which capable future internal AI agents could compromise OpenAI.
- Design security controls - focusing on measures with long lead times that benefit from advanced preparation.
- Stress-test defenses with AI agent evaluations and penetration tests
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU:
- Are deeply technical across security and modern infrastructure, and are comfortable digging into the details of operating systems, cloud, containers, CI/CD, or distributed systems.
- Have strong software engineering skills and enjoy building prototypes yourself.
- Are interested in engaging with stakeholders and can do so effectively.
- Bonus: have experience securing cloud infrastructure, and are deeply familiar with core components of the AI stack.
Compensation Range: $293K - $405K USD
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.
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Compensation
This Security Engineer role pays $293k-$405k/yr. Within typical range for security engineer roles in United States.
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