OpenAI
Applied AI Architect, Cyber
$295K–$345K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
About the job
Partners with customers to design, prototype, evaluate, and safely deploy AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows using OpenAI models and tools.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery and guide cybersecurity use cases from executive goals through technical implementation.
- Build demos, prototypes, pilots, and reference architectures; advise on safe deployment, evaluation, and human approval patterns.
- Create reusable field assets and relay customer feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams.
What they ask for
- Strong cybersecurity expertise in at least one stated domain.
- Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs and common development or security tooling.
- Ability to design AI workflows using retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evaluations, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human review.
- Ability to scope customer pilots, communicate with executive and technical audiences, and validate security findings.
Pay
$295K – $345K USD base salary
Tools
OpenAI APIs, Codex, Python, JavaScript, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems
AI focus
Apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to cybersecurity use cases; evaluate and safely deploy AI workflows across security-critical processes.
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