Security Engineer, OpenAI
Detection and Response Technical Lead
$245-370k
Includes generous equity
AI research and development platform
Job no longer available
AI research and development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$245-370k
Includes generous equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and/or being a senior member of a Security team focused on detection and response operations
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or cloud infrastructure platforms
- Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar)
- Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction
What the job involves
- As a Security Engineer you will join our OpenAI engineers and researchers in building, operating and securing transformational AI technologies
- This role will focus on all aspects of Detection & Response, including infrastructure and operations, and will also contribute to the Security team as a strong generalist
- Drive projects in all major security verticals including: AppSec, InfraSec, OffSec and Detection and Response
- Innovate to solve novel security problems
- Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture
- Innovating on Detection and Response infrastructure
- Build tools for managing the lifecycle of detection rules
- Develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations
- Automate manual response processes
- Ensuring visibility and control of OpenAI’s endpoint fleet (macOS, Windows)
- Driving improvements across identity access and management (IAM), device management, productivity software, and our use of public cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure)
Our take
OpenAI aims to research and deploy AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is safe, controllable and beneficial to all of humanity. The company began its mission by developing an API that can solve language-based tasks, such as answering written questions or pulling up relevant documents based on a query.
Following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, which gained more than 1 million users in its first 5 days and is already worth billions, OpenAI announced a paid version named ChatGPT Plus which will be launched in the US first.
It is worth noting that OpenAI is not without controversy. Its products have sparked conversations regarding the morals and implications of AI tools, and recent investigations have uncovered misalignments between the company's public commitments and its alleged operations behind closed doors.
Whilst AI applications can be found in a vast variety of tech startups, this generally consists of the automation of algorithmic tasks such as data analysis and organization. OpenAI’s approach to designing true human-like artificial intelligence is futuristic, but with support from its high-profile partners (such as Microsoft), an annualised revenue reported at $ 2 billion in 2023, and the clear success of its products have the company well set to continue bringing advanced AI to the public.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2026
$110bn
LATE VC
Dec 2025
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $179.9bn
Company benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
- Mental healthcare service
- Fertility treatment coverage
- 401(k) with generous matching
- 20-week paid parental leave
- Life insurance (complimentary)
- AD&D insurance (complimentary)
- Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
- Optional buy-up life insurance
- Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
- Annual learning & development stipend
- Regular team happy hours and outings
- Daily catered lunch and dinner
- Travel to domestic conferences
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sam Altman
(CEO)Former Y Combinator President & Chairman.
Ilya Sutskever
(Chief Scientist)Initially served as the company's Research Director, then became Chief Scientist in 2018. Co-founded DNNResearch and previously worked at Google as a Research Scientist.
Greg Brockman
(President & Chairman)Previously served as CTO of the company. Founding Engineer and former CTO of Stripe.
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