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Global Detection and Response Lead at OpenAI | San Francisco

OpenAISan Francisco
On-site Full-time

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Experience Level

Manager

Qualifications

Qualifications:Significant experience in cybersecurity, specifically in detection and response operations. Proven track record of leading teams in high-pressure environments. Strong understanding of security monitoring tools, incident response frameworks, and threat intelligence methodologies. Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Ability to foster a collaborative team environment and develop talent within the organization.

About the job

About Our Team

At OpenAI, our Security organization is dedicated to fostering safe and responsible innovation on a global scale. As our systems, infrastructure, and research capabilities expand, we are committed to investing in top-tier security measures that protect our people, products, and users while maintaining our momentum in progress.

Our team is focused on safeguarding OpenAI’s environments by developing sophisticated detection systems, enhancing real-time response capabilities, scaling telemetry and logging infrastructure, and providing actionable threat intelligence to proactively counter adversaries.

About the Role

We are on the lookout for a Global Detection and Response Lead who will take ownership of and enhance OpenAI’s cybersecurity detection and response operations. In this pivotal role, you will establish the strategy and oversee the execution of security monitoring, incident response, recovery, and post-incident enhancements across our global infrastructure.

As a hands-on leader with substantial technical credibility and acute operational instincts, you will build and mentor high-performing teams, collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering to ensure that detection and response capabilities are integrated into the systems that drive OpenAI.

This role demands strategic thinking combined with practical leadership skills, requiring deep technical expertise, operational discipline, and the ability to cultivate high-performing teams in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead global detection and response operations, ensuring continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security incidents across diverse networks and infrastructures.

  • Mentor and manage several teams of senior engineers focused on observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence, strategically expanding these functions as OpenAI’s computational capacity and platform aspirations grow.

  • Ensure exceptional operational readiness through management of incident response playbooks, on-call procedures, escalation protocols, and ongoing enhancements to response efficacy and agility.

  • Enhance detection effectiveness by collaborating with engineering teams to ensure essential telemetry is accessible, reliable, and actionable across cloud, corporate, and production environments.

  • Work collaboratively across all departments to assess and address emerging security challenges and risks.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is at the forefront of AI research and deployment, committed to ensuring that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our mission is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, without requiring strict constraints on our research agenda.

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