Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government

What you'll do

• Identify high-value AI applications and implement cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and architectures integrated with customer security tools.
• Design and run evaluations, guide deployment decisions, and deliver operational handoffs with government and OpenAI teams.
• Share reusable code and implementation guidance, and relay customer and evaluation insights to Product, Engineering, and Research.

What they ask for

• Active TS/SCI clearance and current, active full-scope polygraph.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, cyber operations, or security-focused software engineering, including direct work with government customers or national security mission teams.
• Practical offensive and defensive cybersecurity experience, plus hands-on coding and experience building, testing, and deploying cyber capabilities or security automation.
• Programming experience with languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go, and ability to integrate APIs, agents, command-line tools, and security platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting NSA or comparable national security cyber missions is strongly preferred.

Pay

$211K – $302K USD base salary

Tools

OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, GitHub, CodeQL

AI focus

Build, evaluate, and deploy AI-powered cyber tools and agentic workflows for government and national security missions.