Principal Security Engineer
OpenAISeattle, WAhybrid$195K–$317KApplied AIPosted 22d ago · Aug 23, 2026
OpenAI is hiring a principal security engineer to work on security for frontier ai lab and the fastest-scaling consumer ai product company.
What you would own
- Build detections and automation that reduce time to contain.
- Harden cloud infrastructure and identity boundaries.
- Lead incident response for your area of ownership.
Skills
Threat DetectionPythonGoCloud SecurityRustKuberneteseBPFReverse Engineering
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Employees
3.4K
+19% 90d
Open roles
388
+28% 30d
Remote share
12%
Activity score
89
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Compensation
Research Engineer pay at OpenAI up 20% year over year
Median posted compensation for research engineer roles moved from about $358K to $428K across 210 observed postings and reports.
Research Engineer median$428K+20%/ 12 months
Pay moving this fast usually signals a supply shortage rather than a general raise.
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