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Cyber Operations Lead, Critical Harm Operations

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labremotelead$252k–$335k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead Cyber Operations for severe safety risks across ChatGPT, API, and agents.
  • Build reviewer standards, quality systems, and safe automation from 0 to 1.
  • Shape high-stakes cyber judgments for frontier risk and material harm.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Senior cyber intelligence leader with 8+ years experience who blends deep attacker judgment with operational leadership and thrives building teams, systems, and clarity from ambiguity.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in cybersecurity, cyber intelligence, threat intelligence, incident response or related field
  • 4+ years leading teams
  • Experience building and scaling cyber operations or abuse-prevention capabilities
  • Experience designing human-in-the-loop automation or evaluation systems
  • Strong judgment on attacker behavior, emerging threats and dual-use activity
  • Experience with reviewer programs, QA systems, escalation workflows or vendor/BPO programs
  • Highly analytical with ability to turn operational data into improvements
  • Exceptional executive presence and ability to distill complex risk into recommendations
remote policy
Hybrid - 3 days in office per week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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