Software Engineer - Frontend, Security Products

Details

Security Products is on a mission to transform cybersecurity by leveraging AI to give defenders a decisive advantage.

Born out of OpenAI’s security research program and incubated with Sam Altman’s encouragement, the Security Products team is taking the breakthroughs we’ve developed internally and bringing them to the world. Our tools are already protecting OpenAI’s own systems, and we’re looking to scale their impact to the world.

We are a lean, high-caliber team operating at the frontier of AI and security. We blend security research with product engineering to explore what’s possible, build what’s practical, and give defenders an unprecedented advantage — all while advancing the science of AI-driven security itself.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain applications and systems that bring advanced AI-driven security capabilities to real users.
• Work directly with internal and external customers to deeply understand their workflows and translate them into intuitive, powerful product experiences.
• Design and build efficient and reusable frontend systems that drive complex web applications.
• Plan and deploy frontend infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy our products.
• Collaborate across OpenAI’s product, research, engineering, and security organizations to maximize impact.
• Help shape the engineering culture, architecture, and processes of a new business unit with a critical mission.
• Work across the stack — design user-facing features, build backend systems, integrate AI capabilities, and ensure products are robust and reliable.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience at technology and product-driven companies.
• Experience building production web applications at scale using TypeScript, React, and other web technologies.
• Familiarity with public cloud environments (Azure or AWS) and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.).
• Comfortable building complex applications and systems from the ground up, with limited development infrastructure available.
• Intrinsically driven to learn and fill in missing skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where problems may be ambiguous, emerging, or rapidly evolving.
• Strong collaboration with security experts, AI researchers, and product engineers is expected.

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base pay in the listed range plus equity and potential performance-related bonus(es).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks).
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees.
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated company office closures.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend; daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

(Description adapted from the original OpenAI posting; includes team, role responsibilities, required skills/technologies, and benefits.)