Security Researcher, Codex Security
About the Team: Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Codex Security is OpenAI’s first security agent, built to scan GitHub Cloud repositories, validate real vulnerabilities, and integrate with Codex to help generate fixes.
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Security Researcher, Codex Security at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team: Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Codex Security is OpenAI’s first security agent, built to scan GitHub Cloud repositories, validate real vulnerabilities, and integrate with Codex to help generate fixes.
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- Conduct deep security research on real-world software systems to discover complex vulnerabilities across large codebases and distributed architectures.
- Investigate and validate vulnerabilities discovered by AI-driven security agents, including building proofs-of-concept and exploit demonstrations.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve automated vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation workflows as part of product development.
- Build high quality security datasets and evals that will help advance model’s cybersecurity capabilities
- Train and improve AI models used for vulnerability discovery, validation, and automated remediation by developing datasets, evaluations, and feedback loops grounded in real-world security research.
- Publish technical writeups, research insights, and vulnerability analyses that advance the state of application security.
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- Conduct deep security research on real-world software systems to discover complex vulnerabilities across large codebases and distributed architectures.
- Investigate and validate vulnerabilities discovered by AI-driven security agents, including building proofs-of-concept and exploit demonstrations.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve automated vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation workflows as part of product development.
- Build high quality security datasets and evals that will help advance model’s cybersecurity capabilities
- Train and improve AI models used for vulnerability discovery, validation, and automated remediation by developing datasets, evaluations, and feedback loops grounded in real-world security research.
- Publish technical writeups, research insights, and vulnerability analyses that advance the state of application security.
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