OpenAI

Cyber Operations Strategist, Critical Harm Operations

OpenAI$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in various specialized areas.
  • Deep reasoning skills about attacker tradecraft and vulnerability exploitation.
  • Experience building or improving high-stakes operational systems and QA processes.
  • Ability to translate complex cyber policy and judgment into clear SOPs and decision trees.
  • Proficient in programming languages such as SQL, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, and PowerShell for operational problem solving.
  • Understanding of human-in-the-loop processes and automation.
  • Capability to operate independently and communicate effectively with diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the Cyber Operations operating model and enhance escalation paths and SOPs.
  • Act as the senior cyber expert for high-risk decisions across multiple product surfaces.
  • Translate policy ambiguities and reviewer disagreements into actionable decision rules.
  • Develop effective operating systems, quality loops, and error taxonomies.
  • Enhance FTE and BPO capabilities through training and partnerships with vendors.
  • Diagnose operational issues using quality, SLA, and backlog signals to identify fixes.
  • Create practical tools and automations, such as scripts and dashboards, to improve decision quality.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities in advanced cybersecurity practices.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Chance to work on cutting-edge technology and emerging product surfaces.
  • Ability to significantly impact operational improvement and reviewer quality.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a senior cybersecurity practitioner and operations strategist to raise the quality, scalability, and technical rigor of our Cyber Operations. You will combine hands-on cyber judgment with systems-level operating design: resolve the hardest dual-use questions, evolve SOPs, uplift reviewers and vendors, and build practical tools and automations.

This is a senior IC role. Success is not primarily cases closed; it is durable improvement in the operating model and the reviewers who run it.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
  • Drive the Cyber Operations operating model across domain priorities, SOPs, escalation paths, quality health, vendor capability, roadmap inputs and help inform 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 clear decision rules, calibration examples, training, and tooling requirements.
  • Build durable operating systems and quality loops: golden sets, holdouts, double-labeling, adjudication, error taxonomies, reviewer calibration, and automation evaluations.
  • Raise 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 hands-on solutions-SQL analyses, scripts, dashboards, LLM eval workflows, evidence enrichment, routing logic, and lightweight automations-that improve decision quality and reduce manual effort.
  • Partner with Policy, Integrity, Safety Systems, Security, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Investigations to operationalize changes and drive launch readiness.
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU:
  • Have 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.
  • Can reason deeply about attacker tradecraft, vulnerability exploitation, credential abuse, malware, persistence, evasion, exfiltration, cloud or identity abuse, and ambiguous dual-use activity.
  • Have built or improved high-stakes operations, reviewer programs, QA systems, escalation workflows, or vendor/BPO programs.
  • Can turn complex cyber and policy judgment into reviewer-usable SOPs, decision trees, training, and concise written recommendations.
  • Are comfortable using SQL, Python, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, PowerShell, and Bash, APIs, LLM tooling, or automation to solve operational problems.
  • Understand human-in-the-loop automation, evaluations, monitoring, holdouts, and fallback paths for sensitive workflows.
  • Operate independently in ambiguity, communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, and bring sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive material.
  • Experience with trust and safety, platform abuse, cyber misuse of AI systems, or LLM safety.
NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience with golden sets, classifier or prompt evaluations, and reviewer-quality programs.
  • Experience enabling global vendor reviewer operations.


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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