Offer summary

Qualifications:

15+ years of security experience, including 10+ years leading large-scale infrastructure or data center programs., Proven track record in protecting hyperscale, colocation, or hybrid environments against sophisticated adversaries., Deep knowledge of security design and operations, such as host-level hardening, network segmentation, and identity management., Experience with control frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2, and driving compliance in regulated environments..

Key responsibilities:

Lead the security vision, architecture, and operations for data center infrastructure globally.

Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary security team across multiple time zones.

Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to implement security best practices.

Engage with suppliers and partners to assess and mitigate third-party risks.

Job description

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic cybersecurity leader to join our team to lead our data center security efforts. This person will drive the overall vision and execution of cyber defense and security architecture efforts for OpenAI’s rapidly expanding datacenter footprint, spanning multiple, diverse environments. You will be directly responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team to ensure the security of these ambitious infrastructure programs, including key projects already in flight.

This role is open to remote employees, or relocation assistance is available to one of our OpenAI offices in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City.

In this role, you will:

Spearhead the overall security vision, architecture, execution, and sustained operations to protect data center infrastructure across a global footprint.
Recruit, mentor, and lead a diverse, distributed, and multidisciplinary team of security professionals across multiple timezones to securely enable mission impact.
Integrate hardware‑rooted trust, segmented enclaves, side‑channel mitigations, and insider‑risk countermeasures tuned for persistent, well‑resourced adversaries.
Drive security design reviews, threat modeling, supply‑chain risk assessments, secure provisioning, runtime monitoring, incident response, and structured decommissioning.
Deeply collaborate with engineering, operations, and security teams to define, implement, enforce, and evolve security best practices, including network segmentation, physical security, identity management, and access control policies.
Engage with suppliers and partners to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with thirdparty hardware, firmware, and software dependencies.
Prepare and deliver executivelevel updates on risk posture, compliance, incident status, and program progress.
Ensure our facilities meet the strictest compliance requirements.
Continually evolve the security of our data centers alongside advances in cybersecurity controls, adversary activity, and commensurate with increased sophistication and risks of our frontier models.