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OpenAI

San Francisco; US - Remote

Enterprise Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management

Posted 2 days ago

Level
Senior
Experience
Not stated
Work style
Remote
Full-time
Pay
$347k to $445k

At a glance

The role in plain English

This role focuses on enterprise vulnerability management, including novel and zero-day threats. The position suits experienced security engineers who can investigate, prioritise, and remediate vulnerabilities across networks, endpoints, and SaaS. Day-to-day work includes technical investigation, automation, tool building, and collaborating with IT and security teams. The role also involves improving asset visibility, reporting, and supporting incident response as needed. Remote work within the US is available.

What you'll do

  • Investigate and prioritise vulnerabilities across enterprise systems
  • Develop and validate emergency mitigations for unpatched vulnerabilities
  • Drive remediation and verify closure of security issues
  • Build and operate security tools and automation
  • Improve asset visibility and vulnerability data quality

What they're looking for

Essential

  • Experience with novel or emerging vulnerability investigation
  • Technical depth in a relevant security domain
  • Working knowledge of networks, endpoints, and SaaS
  • Ability to improve code and integrate APIs securely

Nice to have

  • Experience using AI agents to solve security problems

Core skills

  • Vulnerability management
  • Incident response
  • API integration
  • Automation
  • Endpoint security
  • Network security
  • SaaS security
  • AI agents

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

4/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

4/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

3/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01Describe how you investigated and remediated a zero-day vulnerability.
  2. 02How do you prioritise vulnerabilities with incomplete information?
  3. 03Explain your approach to integrating AI agents into security workflows.
  4. 04How would you coordinate emergency mitigations across multiple teams?

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing and deploying general-purpose artificial intelligence.

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About the Team

Enterprise Security protects the systems, identities, devices, and services that enable OpenAI's employees to work securely and effectively. We partner across IT and Security to understand risk, build practical defenses, and support a rapidly evolving technical environment.

About the Role

We are looking for an Enterprise Security Engineer with a focus on vulnerability management, novel vulnerabilities, and zero-day response. You will investigate vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across networks, endpoints, and SaaS, prioritize them in the context of real exposure, and drive remediation through verified outcomes.

You will also build security capabilities and automation, use AI agents to solve practical problems, and help shape how enterprise security operates as agents become a larger part of everyday work.

This role is open to candidates in San Francisco, CA, and to remote candidates in the United States.

In this role, you will:

  • Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise systems, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days with incomplete information and no established playbook.
  • Translate technical findings into clear attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation.
  • Develop and validate emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable, coordinate with system owners, vendors, and incident responders, and drive durable fixes through verified closure.
  • Improve asset visibility, ownership, vulnerability data quality, and reporting.
  • Build and operate security tools and integrations using code, APIs, automation, and AI agents.
  • Design controls for agent access, execution, and accountability.
  • Contribute across endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS security, and support incident investigations when needed.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Have independently investigated novel or emerging vulnerabilities and driven enterprise remediation from uncertain initial reports through mitigation and verified closure.
  • Bring technical depth in a relevant security domain and working knowledge across networks, endpoints, and SaaS.
  • Can understand and improve code and safely integrate APIs and security systems.
  • Have solved substantive problems using AI agents and can explain how you evaluated and corrected their work.
  • Think clearly about security tradeoffs, ambiguous evidence, and the changing risks of agentic systems.
  • Collaborate effectively, take ownership, and communicate technical risk to varied audiences.

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.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form . No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

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