Senior Global Security Investigator

About the Team

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

The Security team protects OpenAIs 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

We are seeking a senior Global Security Investigator with a technical background to lead complex long-running security investigations involving a full spectrum of threats whether originating from internal employees external threat actors or supply chain partners. This role is about seeing the full chessboard and independently driving complex multi-month cases across cyber physical and human domains.

In this role you will:

• Independently conduct comprehensive security investigations from initial detection to resolution including cases involving insiders external actors and supply chain and third-party risks.

• Lead proactive data-driven threat-hunting efforts that weave together disparate signals to surface undetected insider or external threats before they escalate into incidents.

• Perform comprehensive technical analysis of complex hardware software and supplier supply chains to identify enumerate and mitigate risks.

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams including Human Resources Legal Security and IT and external stakeholders or law enforcement when necessary.

• Collaborate with technical counterparts to enhance detections resolve telemetry gaps and implement new capabilities to identify security issues involving cyber physical and human domains.

• Collect preserve and analyze evidence from a variety of sources including log data digital forensics subject interviews access records threat intelligence and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to support investigative findings.

• Continuously improve investigative procedures and security controls based on investigations and lessons learned.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice Cybersecurity or a related field (or equivalent experience) and 8 years of investigative experience in counterintelligence insider risk forensic investigations cybersecurity supply chain security or related domains.

• Unimpeachable integrity sound judgment and the ability to handle confidential matters with discretion.

• An active US security clearance or willingness and eligibility to obtain one.

• Deep specialization in geopolitical threat domains with hands-on experience identifying assessing and mitigating adversarial risks through tailored countermeasures.

• Expert knowledge of common security tooling including EDR DLP UEBA SIEM SOAR and other related platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to independently write complex queries automate data workflows and analyze structured datasets.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to distill complex findings into clear actionable reports and explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.

• Exceptional collaboration skills with the ability to work across diverse teams (HR Legal IT etc.) to lead projects and investigations with minimal guidance.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary confidential and non-public information. In addition job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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