Global Detection and Response Lead

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 347,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Incident response","Detection engineering","Threat intelligence","Observability"]

OpenAI’s Security team seeks a Global Detection and Response Lead to own and scale cybersecurity detection and response operations across global infrastructure. You will set strategy, lead multiple senior engineering teams, and partner with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering to embed detection and response capabilities by design. The role demands deep technical credibility, leadership, and a focus on reducing incident detection and response times.

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OpenAI
6 months ago

Global Detection and Response Lead

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Job Summary

OpenAI’s Security team seeks a Global Detection and Response Lead to own and scale cybersecurity detection and response operations across global infrastructure. You will set strategy, lead multiple senior engineering teams, and partner with Infrastructure, Research, Product Security, Enterprise Security, IT, and Engineering to embed detection and response capabilities by design. The role demands deep technical credibility, leadership, and a focus on reducing incident detection and response times.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Oversee global detection and response operations, including continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and remediation of security events across networks and infrastructure.
  • •Lead, mentor, and directly manage several small teams of senior engineers across observability, detection and response, and threat intelligence; hire and scale these functions as OpenAI’s compute footprint grows.
  • •Ensure world-class operational rigor through incident playbooks, on-call/escalation paths, tabletop exercises, and continuous improvement of response quality and speed.
  • •Improve detection quality and coverage by partnering with engineering teams to ensure telemetry is available, reliable, and actionable across cloud, corporate, and production environments.
  • •Partner across OpenAI to evaluate and respond to emergent security concerns in a frontier AI lab environment; develop detection and response strategies for agents operating at scale.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 347,000 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in cybersecurity with deep expertise in detection engineering, incident response, and security operations.
  • •Active U.S. Government security clearance (Top Secret) or willingness and eligibility to obtain one.
  • •Deep experience building and leading detection, instrumentation/observability, and threat intelligence teams across a global footprint.
  • •Stellar leadership skills with a track record of driving durable improvements to programs, processes, and people.
  • •Deep expertise in modern observability stacks (SIEM, data lakes, EDR, cloud telemetry, logging) and detection primitives.
Experience:CybersecuritySecurity operationsAI
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationIncident responseDetection engineeringThreat intelligenceObservability
Tech Stack:SIEMEDRCloud telemetryData lakesLogging

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.
Security Clearance:Top Secret

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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