Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products
OpenAI is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products in San Francisco, United States. It pays $266k-$445k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on OpenAI.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this cybersecurity role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The listed pay starts 67% above the typical cybersecurity posting on Level.
- The posting allows some remote work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Python, APIs and AI research.
- Level lists 793 other open roles at OpenAI.
AI in this role
Build full-stack product experiences and backend systems for AI-powered cybersecurity products and vulnerability discovery workflows.
About the Team
The Cybersecurity Products team builds products at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity. Our work includes Codex Security and related cyber products that turn advances in model capability into dependable tools for defenders. We help teams find, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities, continuously improve the security of software, and test AI-powered applications before they reach production.
About the Role
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will build the product experiences and systems that make AI-powered security useful in real engineering environments. You will work across web surfaces, APIs, orchestration, data models, and integrations to help security and engineering teams move from a codebase or application to evidence-backed findings, prioritized remediation, and revalidation.
You will collaborate closely with product engineers, security researchers, and customer-facing teams. The work spans fast-moving product development and hard systems problems: long-running workflows, large repositories, sensitive data, reliability, observability, and a high bar for earning user trust.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Build end-to-end workflows for vulnerability discovery, security scanning, red teaming, findings review, remediation, and reruns.
Design and operate backend services for long-running security work, including APIs, asynchronous orchestration, durable state, and integrations with developer workflows.
Make complex security results actionable through clear product surfaces, strong evidence, thoughtful prioritization, and reliable reporting.
Partner with security researchers, product teams, and users to evaluate quality, reduce noise, improve coverage, and ship safely.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have experience shipping production full-stack products across modern web frontends and backend services.
Can design clear APIs and data models, reason about asynchronous systems, and diagnose reliability or performance problems.
Care about building products that experts trust while making sophisticated workflows usable for a broader set of engineers.
Bring strong judgment around privacy, security, and correctness. Application-security or cybersecurity experience is helpful, but not required.
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 the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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How we rate this
Full Stack Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products at OpenAI rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $266k
- Typical cybersecurity job
- $159k
This posting starts 67% above the typical cybersecurity job. See cybersecurity jobs
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- Tell me about a project where full stack development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where api design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where backend services was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, Full Stack Development, API Design, Backend Services, and Security. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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