About the job
About the Team
At OpenAI, we are driven by a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence serves the interests of all humanity. Our Security team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding OpenAI's innovative technologies, our talented workforce, and our diverse product offerings. We emphasize a technical yet operational approach, dedicated to supporting all research and production at OpenAI. Our core tenets include prioritizing impactful actions, empowering researchers, anticipating transformative technologies, and fostering a robust security culture.
About the Role
We are on the lookout for an outstanding Principal Offensive Security Engineer to elevate OpenAI's security framework. This role transcends traditional red teaming; it provides an opportunity to delve deeply into security challenges, create innovative attack simulations, and collaborate closely with defensive teams to drive strategic enhancements throughout the organization.
In this position, you'll not only identify vulnerabilities but also take the lead in resolving them, harnessing cutting-edge technologies to automate offensive security techniques, and utilizing your unique attacker perspective to inform our overarching security strategy.
Your primary focus will be on rigorously testing our agent-powered products like Codex and Operator. These systems are valuable targets due to their rapid evolution, ability to perform sensitive user actions, and extensive attack surfaces. You'll play a vital role in fortifying our agents by identifying realistic vulnerabilities arising from the interplay between applications, infrastructure, and models.
Key Responsibilities
Proactively hunt for vulnerabilities within the interactions of our agentic products, encompassing applications, infrastructure, and models.
Execute open-scope red and purple team operations, simulating authentic attack scenarios.
Collaborate effectively with defensive security teams to enhance detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
Conduct thorough penetration testing across our diverse portfolio of products.
Leverage advanced automation and OpenAI technologies to optimize your offensive security initiatives.
Articulate insightful, actionable findings in a clear and compelling manner to drive impactful change.
Influence security strategy by providing expert recommendations based on your findings.

