3 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction and hands-on execution of cyber safeguard infrastructure.
- Establish production-quality reliability, observability, on-call, and SLA/SLO practices.
- Partner with security, research, policy, and product teams to develop durable platforms.
- Build reliable systems supporting cyber evaluations and research workflows.
- Improve the scalability, usability, and operational safety of cyber safeguards.
- Lead cross-functional technical work, align collaborators, unblock progress, and mentor teammates while remaining hands-on.
Requirements
- Extensive experience owning large-scale production systems, including reliability, on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
- Senior- or staff-level technical leadership driving ambiguous, cross-functional work, particularly in cybersecurity.
- Strong hands-on software engineering and systems-design skills, including the ability to work effectively in unfamiliar codebases and architectures.
- Ability to collaborate with researchers and independently translate evolving research needs into robust infrastructure.
- Experience reasoning and communicating about cyber capability, misuse risk, access patterns, safeguards, and deployment tradeoffs.
- Experience at a security company, supporting cyber evaluations, or building security or reliability infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience transitioning from strong engineering work into research support is preferred.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.