Detection & Response Security Engineer — Automate, Detect, Protect

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, supporting all products and research at OpenAI while enabling a robust security culture.

About The Role

As a Security Engineer on Detection & Response, you’ll help protect OpenAI’s most sensitive assets – including our intellectual property, customer data, and the infrastructure that supports them – by building and operating the systems that detect suspicious activity and respond effectively.

In This Role, You Will

• Build and evolve Detection & Response capabilities across OpenAI’s infrastructure, products, and research environments, emphasizing high‑signal detection and reliable operational response.
• Engineer detection pipelines and tooling: develop rule lifecycle management, measurement/quality loops, tuning proce...