OpenAI is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead our Codex Security team. In this role, you will own the technical direction of the product, lead a team of engineers and researchers building agentic security systems, and work closely with customers to ensure Codex Security effectively solves real-world challenges.
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a team building Codex Security, OpenAI’s agentic security researcher.
- Set the technical direction for systems that analyze large codebases, surfacing higher-confidence findings and automatically generating fixes.
- Design architectures for agent-based security workflows combining LLM reasoning, source code analysis, and developer tooling.
- Work closely with product, research, and go-to-market teams to shape Codex Security’s roadmap and enterprise adoption.
- Partner with enterprise customers to understand real-world security challenges and ensure Codex Security solves them effectively.
- Drive high engineering standards across reliability, security, and performance.
- Translate advances in AI agents into practical tools for developers and security teams.
What We're Looking For
- You have led engineering teams building complex technical systems, ideally in security, developer tooling, or AI.
- You have strong technical depth in software engineering, distributed systems, or application security.
- You are comfortable working across product, research, and customer-facing workstreams.
- You enjoy translating ambiguous problems into concrete technical systems.
- You are excited about applying AI agents to real-world security problems.
- You can balance long-term technical vision with rapid iteration on a product used by customers.
- You communicate clearly with both engineers and enterprise stakeholders.
Team & Environment
You will lead the Codex Security team, setting its technical and strategic direction.
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.
