OpenAI

Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber

OpenAI$135K — $160K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with a focus on developer tools or applications.
  • Proficiency in AI models, APIs, or agent workflows and their practical implementation.
  • Experience with application security and vulnerability management best practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to create impactful technical content, such as demos and tutorials.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for translating complex topics into understandable formats.
  • Collaborative experience with various teams to ensure usability and security standards are met.
  • Ability to manage projects from initial concept through continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Build and showcase real-world applications utilizing OpenAI's APIs for secure development.
  • Create educational content like tutorials and blog posts to enhance developer understanding.
  • Develop integrations that streamline AI-assisted security workflows into developer routines.
  • Collaborate with engineers and security experts to ensure technical accuracy in examples.
  • Adhere to sound security practices while developing tools and examples for users.
  • Engage with the developer community through workshops and online events to promote resources.
  • Collect feedback to inform product development and enhance user experience.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools in AI and cybersecurity.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Participation in events and community engagement.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Developer Experience Engineer, Cyber, you will create technical content, developer tools, and sample applications that help developers and security teams secure the software they build and depend on. You will turn OpenAI's cybersecurity capabilities, including Codex Security, into clear, runnable examples and useful learning experiences.

You will work directly with developers, security practitioners, and technical founders to understand their needs and show how AI can improve secure development and defensive security workflows. We're looking for a hands-on engineer who combines strong software skills, creativity, developer empathy, and curiosity about cybersecurity, and who can own projects from the first prototype through release and ongoing improvement.

In this role, you will:
  • Build demos, sample applications, and developer tools that demonstrate practical ways to use Codex, OpenAI's APIs, and Cyber products for secure software development and defensive workflows.
  • Create tutorials, blog posts, videos, and code samples that help developers understand security findings, validate and prioritize vulnerabilities, review proposed changes, and verify fixes.
  • Develop reference integrations that connect AI-assisted security workflows to source control, code review, and continuous integration, helping teams move from initial setup to repeatable use.
  • Partner with Cyber engineers and security researchers to make examples technically accurate and results understandable, with clear guidance on evidence, validation, and the limitations of model-generated findings.
  • Demonstrate sound security practices in examples and tooling, including appropriate permissions, credential handling, protection of sensitive code and data, and human review of agent actions.
  • Engage developers and security practitioners through events, workshops, and online communities, serving as an approachable technical resource and advocate.
  • Gather and synthesize practitioner feedback to identify friction, inform product priorities, and improve the journey from onboarding to everyday use.
  • Contribute directly to developer-facing interfaces, documentation, and tooling, working with product, engineering, and go-to-market partners to help users adopt and succeed with OpenAI's developer products.

Your background might look something like:
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping useful software, developer tools, or products for technical users.
  • Experience building applications with AI models, APIs, or agent workflows, and translating experimentation into reliable, maintainable code.
  • Experience with application security, vulnerability management, secure development workflows, or security tooling.
  • A portfolio of technical content, compelling demos, sample applications, or developer tooling that helps others learn and build.
  • Strong developer empathy and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly through writing, code, and conversation.
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and technical user communities, with thoughtful judgment about usability, security, and correctness.
  • Comfort owning ambiguous problems end to end, learning unfamiliar domains, and iterating quickly as products and user needs evolve.
  • A commitment to responsible AI development and an interest in helping developers use powerful capabilities safely and effectively.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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2015

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