OpenAI
AI Research and Deployment
SecurityPreparednessLead,CodingAgents
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“Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents at OpenAI. Skills: Security Preparedness, AI Agent Security, Threat Modeling, Technical Execution. Develop and maintain threat models for compromising coding assistants and automated security systems. Identify critical security investments”
Industry & Context.
Design workable controls under tight constraints
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Hands-on technical executor, Experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors, Experience working with advanced persistent threat actors, or other capable cyberoffensive groups, Ability to creatively reason about non-standard security problems and design workable controls under tight constraints, Led technical programs or teams
Nice to Have
Hands-on technical executor
What You'll Do.
Develop and maintain threat models for compromising coding assistants and automated security systems
Identify critical security investments
Lead technical execution directly when needed
Write and review software
Coordinate engineers across teams
Work with penetration testers to close gaps in defenses
Defend the security of internal AI agents against insiders
or powerful AI agents
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs; Coordinate engineers across teams
Process & Methodology
Lead technical programs or teams
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE TEAM Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/ that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: 1. Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. 2. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. 3. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/, and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. ABOUT THE ROLE The stakes of securing OpenAI increases as our internal coding and research becomes increasingly driven by autonomous AI agents. Compromising these agents could allow a cyber threat actor to compromise many other parts of the company. In this role, you would lead Preparedness work defending the security of our internal AI agents against insiders, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), or powerful AI agents. We’re looking for a strong hands-on technical executor with experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems. - Identify security investments that are especially critical to make in advance; for example, prioritizing by implementation lead-times, costs, and benefit. - Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs. - Lead technical execution directly when needed, including prototyping controls, writing and reviewing software, and coordinating engineers across teams. - Work with penetration teste
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