OpenAI
Software Engineer, Codex Cyber
$266K–$445K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
About the job
Build Codex Security’s AI-native application security product and platform, helping organizations identify, validate, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities.
What you'll do
- Build end-to-end product features spanning developer interfaces, APIs, backend services, and workflow tooling.
- Own projects across platform controls, customer deployment workflows, and cyber-model infrastructure; design scalable systems for long-running security analyses.
- Translate security research and model capabilities into reliable user workflows, collaborating with product, research, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.
What they ask for
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals and ability to work across product, backend, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
- Ability to own features from concept through production and turn ambiguous requirements into scalable systems.
- Strong product instincts and interest in building useful, understandable technical products.
Nice to have
- Experience building developer tools, workflow platforms, security products, internal infrastructure, or products for technical users.
- Security experience in product or application security, vulnerability research, defensive security, identity, SSO, or secure developer workflows.
Pay
$266K – $445K USD base salary
AI focus
Build AI-native security products and infrastructure that combine model outputs with security analysis to validate vulnerabilities and support remediation in developer workflows.
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