In this paper, we give a hybrid method to numerically solve the inverse open cavity scattering problem for cavity shape, given the scattered solution on the opening of the cavity.This method is a hybrid between an iterative method and an integral equations method for solving the Cauchy problem. The idea of this hybrid method is simple, the operation is easy, and the computation cost is small. Numerical experiments show the feasibility of this method, even for cases with noise. §1 Introduction Solving open cavity scattering problems is of high interest in certain military and defense applications. For examples, jet inlet and exit of airplane are two typical open cavities. They usually cause strong radar echo. Improving the shapes of the open cavities to reduce the radar echo is one of the airplane invisibility techniques.There are much research on cavity scattering problems (see for instance [1,2,4,13,14,16,19]), but much less research on inverse cavity scattering problems. Solving the inverse cavity problems is somewhat difficult, because many popular methods for solving inverse scattering problems can not be extended to solve inverse cavity scattering problems in a general sense. Some recent results on inverse cavity scattering problem for shape are: uniqueness for this problem is proved in [8] and also in [17], and locally stability is proved in [8]. As for numerical methods, a regularization Newton method is presented in [9], and a linearized method with domain derivative is presented in [17]. The former method is a little complicated in solving the Fréchet derivative in each step; the latter method requires a forward solver in each Newton step which increases the computational cost.