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Security Engineer, Detection and Response

About the TeamSecurity 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

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco; New York City; Seattle; US - Remote

Status

Open

Posted

2026-01-28T23:56:50.471+00:00

OpenAI's Security team is hiring a Detection and Response engineer to protect its intellectual property, customer data, and supporting infrastructure. The work covers building detection pipelines with rule lifecycle management and quality measurement, automating triage, enrichment, containment, and evidence capture, and closing telemetry gaps across endpoints, identity, SaaS, cloud, and Kubernetes. The posting asks for hands-on threat detection or incident response experience, familiarity with adversary TTPs, cloud and container knowledge, and comfort scripting. Distinctive: detection and response for agents operating across infrastructure at scale.