Secure Manufacturing & Stealth Investigator

Details

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. The team is technical in what it builds and operational in how it works, supporting products and research across the company. Team tenets include prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and fostering a robust security culture.

This role will build and run investigative capability for Secure Manufacturing & Stealth programs. The risk surface for unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, infrastructure, supply chain, manufacturing, and launch-readiness efforts spans employees, vendors, suppliers, logistics partners, physical movement of assets, procurement records, manufacturing workflows, access systems, device telemetry, and adversarial collection. This role is intended to lead and run investigations across that specialized environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Secure Manufacturing & Stealth (SMS) investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts.
• Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs.
• Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and actionable risk-reduction measures.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs.
• Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards, escalation paths, reporting mechanisms, and recurring-risk feedback loops tailored to secure manufacturing and stealth environments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of investigative experience in corporate security, insider risk, supply chain security, counterintelligence, cyber investigations, manufacturing security, or related domains.
• Experience supporting sensitive programs, secure manufacturing environments, hardware programs, R&D environments, classified or restricted-access programs, or high-value IP protection.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex end-to-end investigations across cyber, physical, operational, human, and external partner domains with minimal supervision.
• Strong understanding of insider threat, supply chain risk, vendor risk, information leakage, physical security investigations, and adversarial collection methods.
• Ability to analyze disparate evidence sources, including physical access records, visitor logs, device logs, endpoint telemetry, collaboration tools, procurement records, shipping records, manufacturing workflows, vendor documentation, communications metadata, and OSINT.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially with Legal, HR, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Physical Security, Cybersecurity, IT, and external partners.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and aims to safely deploy them. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base pay may vary by market, knowledge, skills, and experience; total compensation includes equity and potential performance-related bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts (Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, commuter expenses).
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave, paid medical and caregiver leave, and flexible PTO for exempt employees (up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees).
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures, plus paid sick/safe time where required.
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend; daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees and additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends).