Investigator, Secure Manufacturing & Stealth Programs

jobr.pro; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an experienced investigator to build an investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing and Stealth programs. The role spans unreleased products, prototypes, secure hardware, supply chain, and launch-readiness efforts, requiring coordination across vendors, logistics partners, and internal teams.

You will lead end-to-end investigations across cyber, physical, operational, and human domains, develop playbooks and evidence handling standards, and drive risk-reduction actions in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of investigative experience in corporate security, insider risk, supply chain security, or related domains.
• Experience supporting sensitive programs, secure manufacturing environments, or hardware programs.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex end-to-end investigations across cyber, physical, operational, and human domains.
• Strong understanding of insider threat, supply chain risk, vendor risk, information leakage, and adversarial collection methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts.
• Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs.
• Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs.
• Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards, escalation paths, reporting mechanisms, and recurring-risk feedback loops tailored to secure manufacturing and stealth environments.

Skills

Investigations

Insider risk

Supply chain security

Counterintelligence

Cyber investigations

Manufacturing security

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

OSINT

Endpoint telemetry

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an experienced investigator to build an investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing and Stealth programs. The role spans unreleased products, prototypes, secure hardware, supply chain, and launch-readiness efforts, requiring coordination across vendors, logistics partners, and internal teams.

You will lead end-to-end investigations across cyber, physical, operational, and human domains, develop playbooks and evidence handling standards, and drive risk-reduction actions in