Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

Details

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Team overview

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. The team is technical in what it builds and operational in how it works, supporting products and research at OpenAI. Team tenets include prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

Role summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team. InfraSec protects the foundations of OpenAI’s research and production environments across GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking, storage, and critical services that power frontier AI models. The charter includes securing assets from bare-metal hardware and firmware through Kubernetes clusters and service meshes to data storage and access pathways for highly sensitive model weights and user data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build security controls across diverse layers (physical hardware, firmware/BMC, OS, Kubernetes, networks, CI/CD) to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to drive deployment of security enhancements and control changes across broad-scale infrastructure.
• Tackle high-impact projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management, and machine identity, while continuously raising the security bar for emerging AI workloads.
• Take a generalist approach to building security controls, balancing security expertise with broad technical skillsets to adapt to evolving challenges.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of security principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling.
• Track record of delivering scalable solutions and driving impactful changes across infrastructure in real-world projects.
• Expertise in security of cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure), especially securing multi-cloud networks and infrastructure and designing cloud-agnostic systems.
• Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters from construction to multi-tenant use.
• Familiarity with container security, orchestration security, authentication, and authorization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to objectively assess security risks.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excitement about collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company emphasizes safety, diverse perspectives, and equal opportunity. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law for US-based candidates, and OpenAI provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Compensation & Benefits (summary)

• Base pay range presented on the posting: $292.5K - $405K (varies by location and candidate factors). Several compensation tiers are shown (e.g., SF/Seattle/NYC: $325K–$405K; Zone A: $292.5K–$364.5K). Total compensation may include equity, bonuses, and benefits.
• Benefits include medical/dental/vision, HSA contributions, FSAs, 401(k) with match, paid parental and caregiver leave, paid time off, paid company holidays and closures, mental health support, life and disability coverage, learning & development stipend, daily meals/meal credits, and additional fringe benefits.
• Relocation support is offered for eligible employees.