TLM, Codex Security
About The Position
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 source code repositories, validate real vulnerabilities, and integrate with Codex to help generate fixes. About the Role: We’re looking for a Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to lead the 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 adopting Codex security. This role blends technical leadership, product thinking, and security expertise. You’ll guide the development of AI-driven security research capabilities while ensuring the system delivers real value to organizations securing large-scale codebases.
Requirements
- Have led engineering teams building complex technical systems, ideally in security, developer tooling, or AI.
- Have strong technical depth in software engineering, distributed systems, or application security.
- Are comfortable working across product, research, and customer-facing workstreams.
- Enjoy translating ambiguous problems into concrete technical systems.
- Are excited about applying AI agents to real-world security problems.
- Can balance long-term technical vision with rapid iteration on a product used by customers.
- Communicate clearly with both engineers and enterprise stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- 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 generate fixes.
- Design architectures for agent-based security workflows combining LLM reasoning, source code analysis, and developer tooling.
- Work closely with product, research, and GTM 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
