# Secure Manufacturing & Stealth Investigator

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $288K – $425K
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

OpenAI is seeking a Secure Manufacturing & Stealth Investigator to build and run investigations across a specialized environment. The successful candidate will lead complex investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts.

Responsibilities:

- Lead complex SMS investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks

- Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity

- Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions

- Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity

- Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards, escalation paths, reporting mechanisms, and recurring-risk feedback loops

Requirements:

- 8+ years of investigative experience in corporate security, insider risk, supply chain security, counterintelligence, cyber investigations, manufacturing security, or related domains

- Experience supporting sensitive programs, secure manufacturing environments, hardware programs, R&D environments, classified or restricted-access programs, or high-value intellectual property protection

- Proven ability to independently lead complex end-to-end investigations

- Strong understanding of insider threat, supply chain risk, vendor risk, information leakage, physical security investigations, and adversarial collection methods

- Ability to analyze disparate evidence sources

- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave, paid medical and caregiver leave

- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## Skills

### Required
- investigative experience
- corporate security
- insider risk
- supply chain security
- counterintelligence
- cyber investigations
- manufacturing security

### Nice to have
- sensitive programs
- secure manufacturing environments
- hardware programs
- R&D environments
- classified or restricted-access programs
- high-value intellectual property protection

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