Threat Detection and Response Engineering Manager
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will lead and develop a team of engineers building threat detection, investigation and response capabilities. You will set a threat-informed roadmap, embed agent-driven triage in workflows, build containment capabilities, use OpenAI's models across the detection lifecycle, and partner with security, research and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- Experience managing security or software engineers
- Hands-on ability to prototype tools and write and review code
- Strong AI fluency and experience testing AI for cyber defense
- Experience building threat detections and leading technical investigations
- Understanding of identity, endpoint, cloud, and Kubernetes telemetry
- Ability to build roadmaps and cross-functional partnerships
Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers
- Set a threat-informed detection roadmap
- Own detection and investigation as a complete workflow with agent-driven triage
- Build response and containment capabilities with infrastructure owners
- Apply OpenAI models across the detection engineering lifecycle
- Prototype and productionize model-based defenses
- Translate adversary intelligence into detection hypotheses
- Define telemetry and forensic data requirements with Security Observability
- Validate workflows with replay, adversarial testing, and regression testing
- Contribute investigative expertise during incidents
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
