Novel Abuse Red Teamer
At its midpoint, $239k/yr, this role pays more than the $200k/yr midpoint for Penetration Testing & Red Team openings today (usual band $169k–$320k/yr).
The full posting
About the Team
The Intelligence and Investigations team is dedicated to ensuring the safe, responsible deployment of AI by rapidly detecting and mitigating abuse. Our team leverages cutting-edge testing methodologies to uncover vulnerabilities and emerging threats, helping safeguard OpenAI’s products and users. We work closely with cross-functional partners across product, policy, and engineering to drive a comprehensive defense strategy against evolving adversarial challenges.
About the Role
As a Novel Abuse Red Teamer, you’ll advance our pre- and post-deployment testing efforts at OpenAI, ensuring our models and products remain resilient against evolving, real-world adversarial threats.
We are seeking a self-starter to design, execute, and refine innovative adversarial testing and simulation protocols that leverage state-of-the-art tools and a hands-on red team approach. In this role, you will simulate threat actor methodologies and conduct rigorous application testing to uncover novel abuse vectors.
You will serve as a critical technical bridge between our security, product, and policy teams by employing an attacker mindset and advanced red team tactics to drive actionable insights that strengthen our detection mechanisms and overall product defenses. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in application security or penetration testing, with hands-on experience in web application security and proficiency in tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, and similar. We value professionals with excellent communication skills, a commitment to continuous learning, and a passion for securing AI technologies through innovative testing methodologies.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will
- Design and execute high-fidelity, realistic attack simulations that emulate sophisticated threat actor methodologies, uncovering hidden exploitation vectors through advanced red teaming and application testing techniques.
- Analyze testing outcomes and generate actionable insights to refine our detection mechanisms, ultimately bolstering our overall security posture.
- Serve as a crucial technical bridge between our security, product, and policy teams, ensuring that insights from adversarial testing inform broader defense strategies and remediation efforts.
- Develop and integrate automation tools to streamline testing workflows and enable rapid iteration in response to emerging threats.
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to align testing strategies with evolving product needs and security objectives.
You might thrive in this role if you have / are
- Experience in application security, penetration testing, or red team operations, with a proven track record of executing adversarial testing and simulation protocols.
- A strong technical background in web application security, coupled with hands-on expertise performing security testing of web applications, AI systems, and highly unique attack surfaces.
- An attacker mindset and a passion for identifying novel abuse vectors in live environments, along with the ability to translate complex technical findings into actionable insights.
- Demonstrated success in working cross-functionally within fast-paced, dynamic environments, managing complex product ecosystems, and driving rapid security enhancements.
- Committed to continuous learning, innovation, and the pursuit of cutting-edge security methodologies to protect and advance AI technologies.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement .
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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Where you can work
This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in United States.
Text as OpenAI published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 8 questions.
- 1.When can you start a new role?Date
- 2.Are you authorized to work in the country where the job is located?Yes or no
- 3.Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status in this country?Yes or no
- 4.Are you able to work from our US office three days per week?Yes or no
- 5.Applicant Arbitration Agreement AcknowledgementPick any
- 6.I hereby certify that I have not knowingly withheld any information that might adversely affect my chances for employment and that the answers given by me are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I further certify that I, the underPick any: I confirm I have read the above.
- 7.Do you have an active Full Scope Polygraph clearance?Yes or no
- 8.Are you willing to work on-site at our clients office 5 days a week in Maryland?Yes or no
Taken from OpenAI's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: OpenAI
Develops the GPT models and ChatGPT; its security engineers defend infrastructure, harden agent products and investigate threat actors misusing its models.
Pay and benefits: Salaried full-time roles with equity, which OpenAI grants widely to staff.
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