Enterprise Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management
- Salary
- $347K - $445K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Hybrid · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 15 October 2026.
About the role
About the Team
Enterprise Security protects the systems, identities, devices, and services that enable OpenAI's employees to work securely and effectively. We partner across IT and Security to understand risk, build practical defenses, and support a rapidly evolving technical environment.
About the Role
We are looking for an Enterprise Security Engineer with a focus on vulnerability management, novel vulnerabilities, and zero-day response. You will investigate vulnerabilities and security weaknesses across networks, endpoints, and SaaS, prioritize them in the context of real exposure, and drive remediation through verified outcomes.
You will also build security capabilities and automation, use AI agents to solve practical problems, and help shape how enterprise security operates as agents become a larger part of everyday work.
This role is open to candidates in San Francisco, CA, and to remote candidates in the United States.
In this role, you will:
- Discover, investigate, and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across enterprise systems, including novel vulnerabilities and zero-days with incomplete information and no established playbook.
- Translate technical findings into clear attack paths, business impact, and actionable remediation.
- Develop and validate emergency mitigations when patches are unavailable, coordinate with system owners, vendors, and incident responders, and drive durable fixes through verified closure.
- Improve asset visibility, ownership, vulnerability data quality, and reporting.
- Build and operate security tools and integrations using code, APIs, automation, and AI agents.
- Design controls for agent access, execution, and accountability.
- Contribute across endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS security, and support incident investigations when needed.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have independently investigated novel or emerging vulnerabilities and driven enterprise remediation from uncertain initial reports through mitigation and verified closure.
- Bring technical depth in a relevant security domain and working knowledge across networks, endpoints, and SaaS.
- Can understand and improve code and safely integrate APIs and security systems.
- Have solved substantive problems using AI agents and can explain how you evaluated and corrected their work.
- Think clearly about security tradeoffs, ambiguous evidence, and the changing risks of agentic systems.
- Collaborate effectively, take ownership, and communicate technical risk to varied audiences.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
OpenAI's standard text
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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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What this role asks for
60% of this description is written for the role. The rest is OpenAI's standard text, folded away below.
Read against OpenAI's other open postings on this site.
The team: Security HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 27 open in Security. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in October: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Azure (11 of 27), AWS (9 of 27), CI/CD (9 of 27), Kubernetes (9 of 27), Python (9 of 27), Embedded Systems (6 of 27), Golang (6 of 27)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Client Platform Engineer posted Oct 15
- Vendor Security Technical Program Manager posted Oct 2
- Security Program Manager posted Sep 24
- Engineering Manager, Client Platform Engineering posted Sep 8
- Software Engineer, Host Assurance posted Sep 5
- GRC Technical Program Manager, Product Lifecycle Assurance posted Sep 1
- IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and Governance posted Aug 14
- Network Engineer posted Aug 14
- Network Engineer posted Aug 14
- Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering posted Jul 15
- Research Engineer, Privacy posted Jul 14
- Senior Technical Program Manager - Security posted Jun 25
- Staff Security Reliability Engineer posted Jun 23
- Forward Deployed Security Engineer posted May 21
- Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering posted Apr 30
- Software Engineer, Security Observability posted Apr 15
- Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security posted Mar 25
- Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security posted Mar 25
- Security Engineer, Detection and Response posted Jan 28
- Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security posted Oct 6
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security posted Oct 6
- Security Engineer, Agent Security posted Jul 15
- Software Engineer, Privacy posted Apr 10
- Security Engineer, Application Security posted Feb 27
- Security Engineer, Application Security posted Feb 27
- Security Engineer, Application Security posted Oct 2
From the team and dates on OpenAI's own job board.
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