security
Posted Oct 6, 2025Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
at openai
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with engineering and security teams to drive deployment of security enhancements and control changes across broad-scale infrastructure.
- - A track record of delivering scalable solutions and driving impactful changes across infrastructure in real-world projects.
Requirements
- About the Team Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- InfraSec protects the foundations of OpenAI’s research and production environments, spanning GPU supercomputing clusters, multi-cloud infrastructure, datacenters, networking, storage, and the critical services that power our frontier AI models.
- Our charter includes securing everything from bare-metal hardware and firmware, to Kubernetes clusters and service meshes, to data storage and access pathways for highly sensitive model weights and user data. In this role,
- you will: - Design and build security controls across diverse layers (e.g., physical hardware, firmware/BMC, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD) to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
- - Tackle high-impact projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management, and machine identity, while continuously raising the security bar for emerging AI workloads.
- You will thrive in this role if you have: - Deep understanding of security principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities.
- - A proactive mindset, with the ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling.
- - Expertise in the security of cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure), especially securing multi-cloud networks and infrastructure, and designing cloud agnostic systems. -
- Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters from construction to multi-tenant use.
- - Familiarity with container security, orchestration security, and authentication/authorization.
- - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products.
- We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI.
- Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.
- About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure Security (InfraSec) team.
- - Take a generalist approach to building security controls, balancing a mix of security expertise and broad technical skillsets to adapt to evolving challenges.
- - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to think critically and objectively assess security risks.
- - Excitement about collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally.