# Threat Detection and Response Engineering Manager

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $401K - $510K
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

OpenAI's mission depends on developing and deploying powerful AI responsibly. Security makes that possible by protecting our research, people, products, and users while enabling progress.

We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to guide the engineers who identify and investigate threats to OpenAI and build the capabilities to contain them. You'll hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and prioritize risks to OpenAI's intellectual property, customer data, and critical infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

- Hire, coach, and develop engineers. Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, grow technical leadership, and build a team that reviews work rigorously and learns from missed detections and noisy signals.

- Set a threat-informed roadmap. Prioritize detection work based on how external and internal actors could target the systems where we train and evaluate frontier models, the production services that run inference and power our products worldwide, the datacenter hardware and networks that support both, and the devices, identities, and applications employees rely on.

- Own detection and investigation as a complete workflow. Embed agent-driven triage and investigation in the detections your team operates.

- Build response and containment capabilities tailored to our infrastructure.

- Apply models across the detection engineering lifecycle.

- Turn model advances into tested defenses.

- Anticipate emerging threats.

- Establish the visibility needed to detect, investigate, and respond.

- Engineer for measurable security outcomes.

- Contribute during incidents.

**Requirements**

- Think like an adversary and demand evidence as a defender.

- Have managed security or software engineers and can demonstrate how you have hired, coached, developed technical judgment, and improved a team's ability to deliver.

- Are a hands-on builder who can prototype tools, write and review code, and guide engineers through complex detection, investigation, and response designs.

- Bring strong AI fluency and have built systems that test how models or agents can improve cyber defense.

- Have built or operated threat detections and led technical investigations.

- Understand how identity, endpoint, cloud, Kubernetes, and infrastructure telemetry supports investigations.

- Have used testing and operational feedback to improve security outcomes.

- Can build a focused roadmap and strong cross-functional partnerships in a rapidly changing environment.

**Benefits**

OpenAI offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Competitive salary and bonus structure

- Stock options

- Health, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) matching program

- Flexible paid time off

- Professional development opportunities

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## Skills

### Required
- AI
- cyber defense
- threat detection
- incident response
- security engineering

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