Software Engineer, Codex Cyber

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Codex Cyber team to build AI-native application security products and improve the security of software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build end-to-end product features for Codex Security, from developer-facing interfaces to APIs, backend services, and workflow tooling
• Own ambiguous 0-to-1 projects across product pods, platform security controls, customer deployment workflows, and cyber model infrastructure
• Translate security research and model capabilities into intuitive workflows that help teams find, validate, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities with high signal
• Design scalable, observable systems for long-running analyses across large codebases and enterprise environments
• Partner with product, security research, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly from real-world feedback
• Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Codex Cyber as the team and product surface area grow

Requirements:

• Strong full-stack or product-minded generalists who can own ambiguous product and platform problems end to end
• Excellent builder who is excited to work in security and can turn complex research, product, and customer needs into reliable systems
• Ability to work across user-facing product surfaces, developer workflows, backend services, security analysis pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling
• Experience building features that make Codex Security more useful for application security teams
• Ability to design scalable, observable systems for long-running analyses across large codebases and enterprise environments
• Ability to partner with product, security research, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to iterate quickly from real-world feedback
• Ability to help shape the technical direction and architecture of Codex Cyber as the team and product surface area grow
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering with enough range to work across product, backend, infrastructure, and developer tooling
• Enjoy building high-quality product and platform experiences across the full stack
• High-agency, low-drama, and comfortable owning features from concept to production in a fast-moving environment
• Experience building developer tools, workflow-heavy platforms, security products, internal infrastructure, or product features for technical users
• Strong product instincts and care about making complex technical systems understandable and useful
• Excitement about security and AI
• Direct experience in product security, application security, vulnerability research, defensive security, identity, SSO, or secure developer workflows