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About the Role
We are seeking a highly senior and independent Software Engineer to lead the technical development of cyber safeguard infrastructure within the Preparedness team. This role involves applying production-grade engineering practices to systems that support internal cyber evaluations and safeguard research, as well as enabling safe external deployment of AI capabilities. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with researchers and security partners, transitioning from ambiguous research requirements to robust, operable systems and driving cross-organizational technical initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction and hands-on execution for cyber safeguard infrastructure.
- Establish production-quality reliability, observability, on-call, and SLA/SLO practices.
- Partner with teams across the company - security, research, policy and product - to translate evolving needs into durable platforms.
- Lead cross-functional technical work, create alignment, and unblock collaborators.
- Build reliable systems that support cyber evaluations and research workflows.
- Improve the scalability, usability, and operational safety of cyber safeguards.
- Mentor teammates and raise the engineering bar while remaining deeply hands-on.
Requirements
- Extensive experience owning large-scale production systems, including reliability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
- Senior/staff-level technical leadership with a track record of driving ambiguous, cross-functional work, especially in cybersecurity.
- Strong hands-on software engineering and systems-design skills; ability to go deep in code and architecture, gain context quickly in unfamiliar systems, and make meaningful changes while following existing patterns.
- Ability to collaborate closely with researchers and independently turn evolving research needs into robust infrastructure.
- Experience thinking and communicating about cyber capability, misuse risk, access patterns, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs in high-stakes environments.
- Experience at a security company, supporting cyber evaluations, or building security/reliability infrastructure is a plus.
- Experience moving from strong engineering into research support is a plus; former engineering managers are welcome if they remain deeply technical and hands-on.
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Reliability Engineering
- Observability
- On-call
- SLA/SLO Management
- Incident Response
- Software Engineering
- Systems Design
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Technical Leadership
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- 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.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.