Security Incident Response Team Manager

We are seeking a hands-on technical leader to build the incident response team that protects OpenAI as AI capabilities and the threats surrounding them evolve.

The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) leads the response when defenses are tested,establishing what happened, limiting harm, and strengthening our ability to protect frontier AI.

In this role, you will:

• Hire, coach, and develop exceptional incident responders who combine investigative depth, engineering ability, and sound judgment.
• Lead incident command for complex threats to OpenAI’s research, products, and infrastructure.
• Build and ship agentic capabilities using OpenAI’s models for evidence collection, investigation context, response coordination, and bounded response workflows.
• Set investigation standards for sophisticated adversaries and insider threats across identity, endpoints, cloud, Kubernetes, and large-scale compute.
• Drive incidents to verified closure and work with accountable owners to validate containment and recovery.
• Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders throughout an incident.
• Build sustainable on-call coverage, escalation paths, and handoffs across regions.
• Turn incident evidence into stronger defenses with Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Security Observability, and security platform teams.

You might thrive if you:

• Are motivated by the responsibility of protecting frontier AI.
• Have managed security responders or a closely related technical operations team.
• Bring strong AI fluency and an AI-first builder mindset.
• Are a hands-on builder with deep investigation expertise across identity, cloud, host, and infrastructure systems.
• Have commanded consequential incidents involving capable adversaries.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, executives, and legal or privacy partners.

OpenAI offers a salary range of $401K - $510K.