# Cyber Operations Strategist, Critical Harm Operations

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** CA$140k – CA$188k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Cybersecurity, SQL, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, Llm Tooling, Automation, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Red Teaming, Malware Analysis, Cloud Security
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Senior individual contributor responsible for improving cyber operations, resolving complex dual-use safety decisions, and building scalable reviewer, quality, vendor, and automation systems. Requires 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience and strong operational judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive the Cyber Operations operating model across domain priorities, SOPs, escalation paths, quality health, vendor capability, roadmap inputs, and trusted access strategies.
- Serve as the senior cyber expert for complex or high-risk decisions across ChatGPT, API, Codex, agents, and emerging product surfaces.
- Translate policy ambiguity, quality misses, appeals, and reviewer disagreement into decision rules, calibration examples, training, and tooling requirements.
- Build operating systems and quality loops, including golden sets, holdouts, double-labeling, adjudication, error taxonomies, reviewer calibration, and automation evaluations.
- Improve FTE and BPO capability through onboarding, certification, coaching, recurring calibration, and vendor-performance partnership.
- Use quality, appeals, SLA, backlog, and disagreement signals to diagnose root causes and prioritize high-leverage fixes.
- Build SQL analyses, scripts, dashboards, LLM evaluation workflows, evidence enrichment, routing logic, and lightweight automations.
- Partner with Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, Security, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Investigations to operationalize changes and drive launch readiness.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in offensive security, threat intelligence, incident response, security research, red teaming, application security, DFIR, malware analysis, or a related field.
- Deep understanding of attacker tradecraft, vulnerability exploitation, credential abuse, malware, persistence, evasion, exfiltration, cloud abuse, identity abuse, and ambiguous dual-use activity.
- Experience building or improving high-stakes operations, reviewer programs, QA systems, escalation workflows, or vendor/BPO programs.
- Ability to turn complex cyber and policy judgment into reviewer-usable SOPs, decision trees, training, and concise recommendations.
- Proficiency or comfort with SQL, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, LLM tooling, or automation.
- Understanding of human-in-the-loop automation, evaluations, monitoring, holdouts, and fallback paths for sensitive workflows.
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguity, communicate across technical and non-technical audiences, and exercise sound judgment with sensitive material.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with trust and safety, platform abuse, cyber misuse of AI systems, or LLM safety.
- Experience with golden sets, classifier or prompt evaluations, and reviewer-quality programs.
- Experience enabling global vendor reviewer operations.

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