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Incident Commander, Detection & Response - US

OpenAI · US - Remote

Frontier labremote$347k–$510k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead response to complex incidents protecting IP, data and infrastructure.
  • Drive containment and recovery decisions while keeping stakeholders updated.
  • Improve readiness via exercises, playbooks and post-incident reviews.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

Calm, decisive incident leader with a track record commanding complex security responses. You stay precise under pressure, align global teams, and care about turning lessons into resilient operations.

Requirements

  • Led complex security incidents as incident commander or equivalent response lead
  • Make sound decisions with incomplete information balancing urgency and impact
  • Coordinate responders across teams and time zones with clear ownership
  • Communicate calmly and precisely to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Security and infrastructure fundamentals to assess findings and recovery options
  • Understand detection engineering, telemetry coverage and validation
  • Ability to query and interpret evidence to support response decisions
  • Turn incident lessons into readiness, playbook and detection improvements

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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