# Threat Detection and Response Engineering Manager

About the team OpenAI’s mission depends on developing and deploying powerful AI responsibly. Security makes that possible by protecting our research, people, products, and users while enabling progress. We defend sensitive research and other intellectual property, customer data, and the infrastructure behind frontier AI-from GPU supercomputing and multicloud environments to datacenters and emerging agent systems. Threat Detection Engineering builds and operates the detections and investigative workflows that turn adversary activity into effective response. About the role We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to guide the engineers who identify and investigate threats to OpenAI and build the capabilities to contain them. You’ll hire and develop engineers, set technical direction, and prioritize risks to OpenAI’s intellectual property, customer data, and critical infrastructure. Your team will take an agent-first approach across the detection and response lifecycle, using OpenAI’s models to develop detections, triage signals, investigate suspicious activity, and support bounded response and continuous improvement. You’ll turn advances in model capability into dependable defen

- **Id**: 4197344
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-threat-detection-and-response-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:00:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:53:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9231
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Security Operations, Conversational AI, Code Intelligence, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 214
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.78
- **Repost share**: 0.009
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 401000
- **Max**: 510000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 510000

## Technologies

- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:53:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T22:34:26Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 510000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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