OpenAI
Forward Deployed Security Engineer
$266K–$445K
Washington, DC · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of security engineering experience.
About the job
Secures OpenAI technology deployments for strategic public-sector customers, working hands-on with teams from design through production and ongoing operations.
What you'll do
- Implement and maintain security controls with public-sector customers, including access controls, authentication, encryption, network, and system security.
- Collaborate with teams, customers, and service providers to meet security and compliance goals.
- Maintain security and monitoring through assessments, threat monitoring, and validation exercises.
What they ask for
- Active US security clearance.
- 5+ years of security engineering experience, emphasizing infrastructure, application, network, datacenter, and systems security.
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with security operations, adversary tactics, and developing scalable, secure infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with deployment models using cloud platforms and underlying infrastructure primitives.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
Tools
Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Golang
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