# Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection & Response

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, macOS, Windows, Linux, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Cloud Infrastructure, Detection Engineering, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2025-11-19

> Security Engineer focused on insider threat detection and response, building automated detection workflows, tuning rules, and partnering on investigations for AI infrastructure. Requires 5+ years experience in detection/response, OS/cloud familiarity, and scripting proficiency.

## Job Description

## About the Role

As a Security Engineer, you will build, operate, and secure transformational AI technologies with a focus on detecting insider threats and influencing controls to safeguard OpenAI's most sensitive assets.

**In this role, you will:**
- Innovate on Detection and Response infrastructure to engineer and automate end-to-end detection and investigation workflows.
- Develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations.
- Drive projects across OpenAI’s technology stack with a focus on insider threats, ranging from access abuse and intellectual property theft to novel risks emerging within AI infrastructure.
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including HR, Legal, and peer investigative teams, providing technical expertise and evidence to support investigations.
- Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture.

**You might thrive in this role if you:**
- 5+ years experience working in a detection/response or insider-risk role. We are seeking mid-level and senior candidates.
- You have broad familiarity with operating systems and platforms such as macOS, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes, along with experience in cloud infrastructure.
- Knowledge of modern adversary tactics and attack paths, data exfiltration techniques, and have experience running and leading incidents.
- Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
- Independently manage and run projects, balance preventative controls with user friction, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.
- You’re motivated by securing transformative technology and can adapt familiar security frameworks to new risks in AI infrastructure.

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