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Forward Deployed Security Engineer

About the TeamSecurity is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build

Company

OpenAI

Location

Washington, DC

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-21T17:56:39.33+00:00

OpenAI's Security team is hiring a Forward Deployed Security Engineer to protect deployments of its technology for public sector customers. The role embeds on-site with customers across the lifecycle, implementing and maintaining security controls, advising on access, authentication, encryption, network and system security, and running assessments, threat monitoring and validation exercises. The posting asks for an active US clearance, 5+ years of security engineering, familiarity with Azure and AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, and Python or Golang. Hybrid, three days weekly in Washington, DC; travel to customer sites required.