Listing Description

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.  

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.   

About the Role

As a Security Engineering Manager, you will lead OpenAI engineers and researchers in building transformational and secure AI technologies. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in at least one security engineering discipline and prior experience in security leadership. In this role, you will:

• Drive high leverage initiatives in infrastructure and application security


• Innovate to develop novel security architecture


• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture

You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:

• Managing a team of world-class security engineers, providing hands-on technical leadership to mentor and grow their careers.


• Driving security architecture improvements across OpenAI’s research and production environments.


• Empowering OpenAI's AI researchers and developers to do their best work securely.


• Building enduring and high-trust partnerships with your colleagues across the organization.


• Thinking like an attacker and building like a defender.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• A track record of delivering transformational security improvements via leadership of productive engineering teams.


• Experience in security leadership, including prior management experience.


• Excellent communication skills, and are concise and persuasive.


• Experience with public cloud providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) and a desire to become an expert at protecting Azure infrastructure.


• Experience securing Kubernetes infrastructure (container security, orchestration security, authentication/authorization, etc).


• Proficiency with deployment tooling (Terraform, Buildkite, etc.) and security automation.


• Proficiency in programming (Python, Golang, or similar)


• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.


• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.