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OpenAI's Government team is seeking a Strategic Delivery Lead for Critical Infrastructure to identify, shape, and deliver high-impact engagements supporting U.S. critical infrastructure security and resilience. This role sits at the intersection of technical delivery, public-private collaboration, and national cyber strategy.
You will help government agencies, infrastructure owners, and technology partners translate priorities—including cyber defense, vulnerability management, incident preparedness and response, infrastructure risk analysis, and operational coordination—into secure, technically feasible AI deployments. You will own end-to-end execution of delivery workstreams with Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, and Enablement teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building trusted relationships with government mission owners, cyber leaders, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure operators, and technology partners to identify high-value AI applications
- Owning complex engagements from discovery and solution shaping through pilot, security review, deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption
- Translating critical infrastructure missions, cyber risks, policy requirements, and data constraints into clear technical requirements and executive communications
- Developing public-private delivery efforts with federal cyber agencies, sector partners, cloud providers, and cybersecurity companies
- Leading delivery of AI capabilities supporting defensive workflows such as vulnerability discovery, secure software development, threat analysis, incident response, and infrastructure risk assessment
- Coordinating deployment requirements across government and enterprise environments, including sensitive or restricted networks
- Working with security, privacy, legal, and operational stakeholders to establish evaluations, human oversight, and ongoing monitoring
- Defining and tracking measures of customer value including user adoption, model quality, operational readiness, and improvements in defensive effectiveness
- Bringing customer and partner insights back to Research, Product, and Engineering teams
- Supporting opportunity qualification, proposal development, and statements of work with Account Directors
This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role requiring technical fluency, strong program leadership, executive presence, and sound judgment about deploying AI in environments where service continuity and public trust matter. You will work on-site with customers and partners, with travel up to 50%.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of experience leading critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, or complex technical programs, with substantial experience working with U.S. government agencies and industry partners
- Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements
- Willingness to travel up to 50% and work on-site with customers and partners
- Deep understanding of the U.S. critical infrastructure ecosystem, including federal cyber agencies, sector risk management agencies, infrastructure operators, and public-private partnerships
- Demonstrated experience leading complex programs or public-private initiatives from strategy through execution and sustained operations
- Executive presence and experience advising senior government, industry, and technical leaders
- Technical fluency to work credibly with researchers and engineers; understanding of modern AI solution architectures including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and data integration
- Ability to translate customer outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, and evaluation plans
- Understanding of security and reliability constraints of critical infrastructure, including relationships between IT, operational technology, and continuity of essential services
- Demonstrated ability to build durable partnerships across government, industry, research, and technical teams
- Commitment to strengthening national resilience and helping critical infrastructure partners use frontier AI safely and responsibly
