The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

The Corporate Security (CorpSec) team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of our people and facilities. We are committed to maintaining a secure environment that enables our team to focus on advancing artificial intelligence in a responsible manner.

About the Role

As an Executive Protection Operator, you will play a critical role in protecting OpenAI’s leadership and key personnel. You’ll plan and execute protective operations for travel, events, and daily movements while maintaining discretion, judgment, and professionalism at all times. We’re looking for people who are calm under pressure, adaptable, and collaborative — operators who demonstrate elite-level discipline and a team-first mindset.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or on the East Coast (Washington, D.C. or New York City). We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. The role requires frequent domestic and international travel, including deployments to complex or high-risk environments.

In this role, you will:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute secure transportation and protective operations for executives and key employees.

• Conduct advance work, threat assessments, and route planning to mitigate security risks in both domestic and international environments.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, protective intelligence, law enforcement, and vetted vendors to maintain an agile, credible protective posture.

• Provide immediate response and crisis management during emergencies while preserving discretion and composure.

• Support residential and travel security assessments and contribute to SOP development and continuous improvement.

• Support the broader CorpSec mission — including internal and external event security and special projects — with a “no job too small” attitude.

• Maintain readiness to travel on short notice and operate effectively in foreign and potentially hostile environments.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have operational executive protection experience supporting C-suite or other high-profile principals.

• Have completed a recognized Executive Protection training program or served five or more years in a dignitary protection assignment with a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency.

• Hold (or can obtain) a California Guard Card and BSIS Exposed Firearm Permit; LEOSA/HR218 authority is preferred.

• Bring tactical medical training and demonstrated decision-making ability under pressure.

• Understand foreign intelligence targeting tactics and tradecraft and have experience in mitigation and counter-surveillance operations.

• Are a team player willing to support a wide range of security operations and mission requirements.

• Excel in communication, discretion, and collaboration with senior leadership 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. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $202.5K - $275K