OpenAI

Field Security Specialist (Cyber Security Solutions Engineer)

OpenAI$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity roles, especially in customer-facing positions.
  • Deep understanding of cybersecurity domains like AppSec, Cloud Security, and Vulnerability Management.
  • Proficiency in building demos and prototypes using relevant APIs and tools.
  • Experience with AI workflow design and human-in-the-loop reviews.
  • Ability to translate complex technical details for different audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery sessions with customers to identify cyber workflow needs.
  • Create and deliver engaging demos and proofs of concept for AI security solutions.
  • Define clear pilot projects with measurable success criteria and integration plans.
  • Advise customers on best practices for AI implementation in security workflows.
  • Facilitate communication between executives and practitioners to articulate value and risks.
  • Develop reusable assets such as playbooks and qualification guides to streamline future engagements.
  • Collect and relay customer feedback and requirements to internal teams for product improvement.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance offered for new hires.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are committed to bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives who are excited to help build and deploy safe, useful AI. We are seeking a solutions engineer to partner with our Enterprise customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value from our models through the OpenAI suite of products. You will partner with senior business stakeholders to understand their pre-sales needs, guide their AI strategy, and identify the highest value use cases and applications. You will work with business and technical teams to demonstrate the value of our solutions and recommend architectural patterns to kickstart their implementation and development. You will work closely with Enterprise Sales, Security, and Product teams.

We are looking for a Field Security Specialist to help security leaders and hands-on practitioners understand how OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows can be applied to real cybersecurity use cases.

This is a customer-facing specialist role for someone who can move fluidly between CISO-level conversations, practitioner-level technical depth, and hands-on solution design. You'll help customers evaluate OpenAI for workflows like secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC workflows, detection engineering, and security validation.

You will be the field's cyber expert: shaping discovery, demos, pilots, reference architectures, implementation guidance, and repeatable assets that help customers adopt AI safely in high-stakes security environments.

In this role, you will:

- Lead cyber workflow discovery with customers across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, detection engineering, red team, cloud security, and GRC automation.

- Build and deliver customer-facing demos, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures for AI-enabled security workflows.

- Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, integrations, evaluation methods, safety boundaries, and human approval points.

- Advise customers on safe implementation patterns, including tool/function calling, structured outputs, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.

- Translate between executive buyers and hands-on security practitioners, helping each audience understand value, risk, and practical next steps.

- Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection handling, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.

- Bring recurring customer requirements, product gaps, blockers, and high-value cyber workflows back to Product, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Have deep practitioner credibility across cybersecurity domains such as application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, or attacker tradecraft.

- Have worked in a customer-facing, advisory, consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, or technical field role.

- Can build credible demos or prototypes using APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or other common security tooling.

- Understand how to design AI workflows with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, and human-in-the-loop review.

- Are comfortable scoping pilots from ambiguous customer pain, including success metrics, required data, workflow integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.

- Communicate clearly with both CISOs and hands-on practitioners.

- Have strong evidence-first judgment: you validate findings, separate true positives from noise, document assumptions, and avoid overstating claims.

- Are excited to build leverage for the broader field by turning one-off customer work into repeatable assets and product feedback loops.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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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