Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Safety Systems
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a senior-level Security Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Security, OpenAI, AI Agents. Compensation is listed at $293,000–$405,000 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Safety Systems
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout the team
Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity.
Our work involves:
Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems.
Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future.
Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets.
This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society.
About the role
The stakes of securing OpenAI increases as our internal coding and research becomes increasingly driven by autonomous AI agents. Compromising these agents could allow a cyber threat actor to compromise many other parts of the company. In this role, you would lead Preparedness work defending the security of our internal AI agents against insiders, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), or powerful AI agents. We’re looking for a strong hands-on technical executor with experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors.
In this role, you will:
Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems.
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