OpenAI is hiring a Senior Global Security Investigator, and its job posting lists a compensation range of $230.4K to $500K, with equity. The role asks for 8+ years of investigative experience in counterintelligence, insider risk, forensic investigations, cybersecurity or supply chain security. On 12 November, Reuters reported that AI firms are hiring former intelligence officers to protect themselves against espionage.
By our count of the two companies’ public job boards on 12 November at about 14:25 UTC, OpenAI lists 32 open postings in its Security department, out of 825, and Anthropic lists 55 in its Security department, out of 672. That is 87 between them, and 3.9% and 8.2% of each company’s postings, by our arithmetic.
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The key insight: As we read it, the number here is our count: 87 open postings filed under Security at OpenAI and Anthropic on 12 November, 8.2% of Anthropic’s postings and 3.9% of OpenAI’s, by our arithmetic, with one OpenAI investigator role listed at up to $500K.
Former intelligence officers, recruiters and company insiders told Reuters that chip, AI and tech firms have been building up their security teams. Revelio Labs, which tracks hiring trends, told Reuters that counterintelligence hiring is new at frontier AI firms, with more explicit roles posted in the last couple of years by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia. Most salaries ranged from $200,000 up to around $500,000, Reuters reported.
Reuters reported that OpenAI appointed former National Security Agency director Paul Nakasone to its board and its safety and security committee in June 2024, and that Anthropic added former CIA deputy director David Cohen and former NSA cybersecurity director Dave Luber to the national security advisory council it launched in August 2025.
Reuters tied the hiring to scrutiny of security risk at Nvidia, which has opened an independent investigation and said it did not believe national security or company secrets were compromised. A specialist recruiter told Reuters that top corporate security chiefs can earn $1 million to $4 million a year, depending on stock awards.
Open postings filed under each company’s Security department on its public job board, read by FourWeekMBA on 12 November 2026 at about 14:25 UTC: Anthropic 55 of 672 and OpenAI 32 of 825. Department labels are each company’s own; shares are our arithmetic.
What the Job Boards Show
OpenAI’s board files 32 postings under Security. They include application, infrastructure and agent security engineers, a vendor security program manager, two incident commanders for detection and response, a technical threat investigator and the global security investigator role.
Anthropic’s board files 55 postings under Security. Alongside security engineers for detection and response, offensive security, data centres and hardware platforms, the list includes a “Security Engineer, RF and Technical Surveillance Countermeasures” and a “Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer”. Its detection and response posting asks the hire to lead incident response “from external attacks to insider threats”.
The listed compensation range on OpenAI’s Senior Global Security Investigator posting (US, remote), read on 12 November 2026: $230.4K to $500K, with equity and multiple ranges.
Outside the AI Labs
Reuters reported that ASML, the Dutch maker of chip-printing machines, has set up an Intelligence Fusion Centre in the last few years and is advertising for an intelligence officer in Taiwan to root out “insider threats”, with at least 10 years of counterintelligence experience required. ASML declined to comment on its security arrangements, Reuters reported.
The Structural Read
As we read the postings, the labs are hiring for threats from inside as well as outside: Anthropic’s detection and response role covers insider threats, and OpenAI’s investigator role asks for counterintelligence or insider-risk experience.
As we read Reuters’ report, security has become a board-level item at the labs: it reported that OpenAI put a former NSA director on its board and that Anthropic named former intelligence officials to a national security advisory council.
FOR AI LABS By our count, Anthropic files 8.2% of its open postings under Security and OpenAI 3.9%.
FOR SECURITY STAFFOpenAI’s investigator posting lists $230.4K to $500K with equity; Reuters reported most such salaries range from $200,000 to around $500,000.
FOR SUPPLIERS Reuters reported that ASML is advertising for an intelligence officer in Taiwan with at least 10 years of counterintelligence experience.
The framework argues: “The governance layer sits at the intersection of capability, regulation, national security, access control, and geopolitical alignment.”
As we read it, security hiring is the staffing side of that layer: the postings put people on access control and insider risk. The framework predates these postings and does not discuss them.
What Is Not Established
Department labels are as each company sets them: Anthropic’s Security department also lists IT support and audio-visual roles, so the count is a measure of what each company files under security, not of security specialists alone. The counts are a single reading on 12 November; we have no earlier reading to compare. The postings do not say how many hires each role covers.
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OpenAI lists a security investigator role at up to $500K that asks for counterintelligence or insider-risk experience, and by our count OpenAI and Anthropic list 87 open postings in their Security departments, as Reuters reported that AI firms are hiring former intelligence officers.
A note on sourcing. Hiring-trend, salary and board facts are as reported by Reuters on 12 November 2026. Posting counts are our own count of OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public job boards on 12 November 2026 at about 14:25 UTC, by department label; the pay range and requirements are quoted from the postings. Shares are our arithmetic.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
