OpenAI Security Engineer jobs
Frontier-lab security — model weights, GPU clusters and agents — with a $266K–$445K posted base.
The Security Engineer, Application Security role
Security engineers protect OpenAI’s research and production environments, from bare-metal hardware and firmware through Kubernetes, multi-cloud and CI/CD to model weights and user data. Infrastructure security, detection and response, application security and agentic-AI security dominate the reqs, and the org describes itself as ‘technical in what we build but operational in how we do our work’.
Security is its own department (26 open reqs) with named sub-teams — Infrastructure Security (GPU clusters, multi-cloud, model-weight protection), Detection & Response, Agent Security, Application Security, Host Assurance, Threat Intel Engineering, Security Observability and Privacy Engineering — on a ladder from Security Engineer to Principal.
OpenAI security engineer salary
Base: $266,000–$445,000 plus equity is the posted range on Security Engineer, Application Security (SF, Seattle, NYC), read from OpenAI’s Ashby posting API on Oct 10, 2026; the posting names no level, so the band spans mid to senior. Infrastructure Security and Agent Security post the same band, Detection & Response $266k–$385k, and Principal Infrastructure Security $401k–$510k. Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi’s OpenAI security page has a single submission, too thin to cite.
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