Threat Detection & Response Engineer

eBSI Export Academy; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer on Detection & Response to protect its most sensitive assets by building and operating telemetry and response workflows. You’ll work across endpoints, identity, cloud, hyperscale compute infrastructure, and datacenter-adjacent layers, partnering with security teams to define requirements and deliver practical telemetry and playbooks.

You will collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to ensure telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks are in

Qualifications

• Hands-on threat detection and incident response experience building detections and runbooks.
• Ability to translate adversary tradecraft into practical detection strategies.
• Threat modeling mindset for infrastructure and features.
• Experience with Kubernetes/containerized environments and cluster telemetry.
• Familiarity with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI).
• Interest in automation to reduce toil with auditable results.
• Comfort with scripting and AI/agent tooling to accelerate investigations.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve D&R capabilities across OpenAI infrastructure, products, and research environments, with high-signal detection.
• Engineer detection pipelines and tooling: rule lifecycle, measurement loops, tuning, safe rollout patterns.
• Automate response and investigations by building workflows that reduce toil and improve time-to-understand.
• Partner with security teams and system/infrastructure owners to ensure telemetry, threat models, and playbooks from day one.
• Define D&R requirements across endpoints, identity, cloud, Kubernetes and prioritize telemetry gaps.
• Evaluate and respond to emergent security concerns in frontier AI lab environments.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Threat modeling

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Automation tooling

Scripting

Cross-team communication

AI/agent tooling

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Security Engineer on Detection & Response to protect its most sensitive assets by building and operating telemetry and response workflows. You’ll work across endpoints, identity, cloud, hyperscale compute infrastructure, and datacenter-adjacent layers, partnering with security teams to define requirements and deliver practical telemetry and playbooks.

You will collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to ensure telemetry, threat models, and response playbooks are in