OpenAI
Strategic Delivery Lead, Critical Infrastructure
Washington, DC · Senior · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 3 days ago
TypeScriptLLMsRAGIncident ResponseResearchLeadershipCollaboration
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
42Risky
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds40
Fits your clock70
Thin sponsorship signal and lottery-bound. A low-probability bet with your clock running. Prioritize cap-exempt roles and proven entry-level sponsors first.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- This role sits at the intersection of technical delivery, public-private collaboration, and national cyber strategy.
- You will work with federal agencies, infrastructure operators, and technology providers to define shared goals and turn promising pilots into sustainable operational capabilities.
- coordinate integration, evaluation, security review, and rollout
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with government mission owners, cyber leaders, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and technology partners to identify and prioritize high-value AI applications.
- Own complex engagements from discovery and solution shaping through pilot, security review, deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption. Establish delivery roadmaps, integrated schedules, risk tracking, decision processes, and customer reporting.
- Develop public-private delivery efforts with federal cyber agencies, sector partners, cloud providers, and cybersecurity companies. Align organizations with different incentives, resources, and definitions of success around shared operational outcomes.
- Lead delivery of AI capabilities supporting defensive workflows such as vulnerability discovery and prioritization, secure software development, threat analysis, incident response, and infrastructure risk assessment, partnering with technical and operational experts on design, evaluation, and execution.
- Support opportunity qualification, proposal development, and statements of work with Account Directors and partners. Define a practical path from pilot to sustained adoption, including operational ownership, resources, funding, and measures of success.
- Understand the U.S. critical infrastructure ecosystem, including federal cyber agencies, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and the public-private partnerships that support national resilience.
- Bring executive presence and experience advising senior government, industry, and technical leaders. Can explain complex cyber and AI issues, address objections, and build agreement across organizations.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience leading critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, or complex technical programs, including substantial experience working with U.S. government agencies and industry partners.
Company info
- The OpenAI for Government team is a mission-driven group bringing frontier AI to public-sector and national security missions.
- We partner with government agencies and their industry counterparts to apply OpenAI's API and enterprise products to high-priority challenges, with careful attention to security, privacy, reliability, and responsible use.
- In this role, you will help government agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and technology partners apply frontier AI to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience.
- You will connect technical teams and mission leaders to develop practical applications for cyber defense and operational preparedness across sectors such as energy, water, healthcare, financial services, and the defense industrial base.
- We accelerate adoption through hands-on support, tailored enablement, and measurable outcomes while preserving human judgment and protecting sensitive information.
- Bring insight from customers and partners back to Research, Product, and Engineering to inform capability development and deployment priorities. Anticipate technical, operational, contractual, and partnership risks and resolve delivery tradeoffs.
- Are willing to travel up to 50% and work on-site with customers and partners to understand their missions, users, and operating environments.
This listing is sourced directly from OpenAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.