# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team builds with customers to bring frontier AI into production. Our Cyber FDEs partner with the security and engineering teams that defend globally critical systems, from enterprise software to the core infrastructure it runs on. Cyber FDEs work closely with our Product, Research, and Go-to-Market teams to adapt our products and models to what customers need to defend their systems. About the role You’ll build systems that give defenders an advantage at a scale few engineering teams encounter. You might help an enterprise identify, test, and deploy patches across hundreds of thousands of code repositories, or help a security team analyze petabytes of logs for signs of malicious agents or coordinated attacks. Across these deployments, you’ll build tools that customer engineers can trust to support consequential security decisions. You’ll work directly with customer security teams, from CISOs to frontline analysts. As AI changes how attackers operate, you’ll help these teams determine where their defenses need to evolve, prioritize what to build, and validate solutions with the engineers who will operate them. Alongside OpenAI’s a

- **Id**: 3852814
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-cyber-sf>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T23:48:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T21:07:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7505
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Code Intelligence, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 208
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.808
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CodeQL** — Optional: no
- **CVE** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Semgrep** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **YARA** — Optional: no
- **YARA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T04:22:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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