Technical Abuse Investigator

OpenAI

Technical Abuse Investigator on the Intelligence and Investigations team at OpenAI. Responsible for detecting and disrupting malicious use of OpenAI’s platform with strong technical fluency.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $158,400 - $425,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Detect, investigate and disrupt abuse and harm with policy, legal, global affairs, security, and engineering teams via complex datasets
Develop and iterate on abuse signals and investigative methods, scaling one-off insights to reduce manual effort and expand coverage.
Build and maintain lightweight technical solutions (e.g., SQL/ Python data pipelines, investigation templates, dashboards, or internal utilities) for investigators focused on specific harm domains.
Develop a deep understanding of OpenAI’s products, data systems, and enforcement mechanisms, and collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve investigative tooling, data quality, and workflows.
Communicate investigation findings effectively to internal stakeholders through written briefs, data-backed recommendations, and escalation summaries
Rotate (in-frequently) into an incident response role that requires rapid threat triaging, investigation, mitigation, sound judgement and concise briefing to senior leadership
Be someone people enjoy working with
Proven ability to quickly learn new processes, systems and team dynamics while thriving in ambiguous, rapidly changing, and high-pressure environments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have deep expertise in at least two of the following domains: agentic AI misuse; automation; encryption; terrorism; fraud; violence; child exploitation; data science; dashboarding; api abuse; product exploits, prompt injection; distillation;
Have 5+ years of experience investigating and mitigating abuse in a relevant domain
Have 4+ years of relevant technical projects
Strong presenter on safety work in public or policy settings
Have experience scaling or automating processes, especially with LLMs or ML techniques.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data ScienceAutomationEncryptionDashboardingIncident ResponseThreat TriagingMachine Learning TechniquesData Quality ImprovementTechnical Project ManagementPolicy Analysis

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCollaborationAdaptabilityProblem SolvingTeam Dynamics