Strategic Delivery Lead, Critical Infrastructure
Washington, DC · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Washington, DC
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.
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About the role
- The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for Critical Infrastructure will identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI’s highest-impact engagements supporting the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure.
- You will help government agencies, infrastructure owners and operators, and technology partners apply frontier AI to strengthen critical infrastructure security and resilience.
- This role sits at the intersection of technical delivery, public-private collaboration, and national cyber strategy.
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.
- Translate critical infrastructure missions, cyber risks, policy requirements, data constraints, and operating conditions into clear technical requirements, delivery plans, and executive communications.
- Develop public-private delivery efforts with federal cyber agencies, sector partners, cloud providers, and cybersecurity companies.
- 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.
- Coordinate deployment requirements across government and enterprise environments, including sensitive or restricted networks where appropriate.
- Work with security, privacy, legal, and operational stakeholders to establish evaluations, human oversight, adversarial testing, and ongoing monitoring appropriate to each use case.
- Define and track measures of customer value, including user adoption, model quality, operational readiness, time saved, and improvements in defensive effectiveness.
- Bring insight from customers and partners back to Research, Product, and Engineering to inform capability development and deployment priorities.
- Support opportunity qualification, proposal development, and statements of work with Account Directors and partners.
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.
- Hold an active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance and can meet customer-specific access requirements.
- Are willing to travel up to 50% and work on-site with customers and partners to understand their missions, users, and operating environments.
Workplace
- Travel up to 50%
- Work on-site with customers and partners
Skills
- Large Language Models
- Enterprise APIs
- Retrieval-augmented Generation
- Agentic Workflows
- Data Integration
