Investigator

• Independently conduct extensive and detailed investigations to determine the origin and cause of fires and explosions
• Investigate large loss, large fire loss, multiple claims, and suspected insurance fraud claims
• Investigate sites and provide expert testimony in depositions and trials
• Report assigned cases to requesting parties according to best practices
• Maintain confidential claims files and document relevant facts in claims handling systems
• Keep management informed of developments affecting claims results
• Review investigations and recommend outcomes promptly
• Provide guidance and recommendations to claims leadership and associates on claims resolution
• Develop and maintain relationships with government agencies and private information bureaus
• Identify and interview witnesses and involved persons
• Conclude investigations independently and determine negligence and violations of laws
• Inspect public records, including deeds, mortgages, liens, suits, judgments, and marriage and divorce records
• Maintain technical competency regarding applicable laws, privacy rights, and public-record availability
• Provide investigative guidance to Fire Investigator team members when needed
• Support quality programs and travel as required

Fire investigator determining fire origins and causes for EFI Global’s forensic consulting services

Senior Fire Investigator, IAAI-CFI

Fire Investigator determining fire origins and causes for EFI Global’s forensic consulting services.
Providing defensible findings, expert testimony, and insurance-fraud investigations across Southern California.

• Investigate and take action on suspicious fraud and potential AML activity across the entire Moov payment network.
• Monitor transaction activity and alert queues for indicators of fraudulent behavior or money laundering.
• Author detailed investigative reports on suspicious activity and escalate cases to management or regulatory bodies as necessary.
• Maintain accurate case records and documentation throughout the investigation lifecycle.
• Manage daily KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) onboarding activity queues.
• Perform enhanced due diligence on merchants enrolling to use the Moov payment processing platform.
• Conduct in-depth onboarding investigations specific to Card and Banking payment platforms.
• Perform merchant underwriting evaluations as part of the onboarding and ongoing review process.
• Work closely with Moov Support to validate new partners joining the Moov network.
• Assist management with the creation, documentation, and ongoing refinement of FRAML processes and procedures.

Moov FRAML Investigator ensuring compliance in financial services.

Moov FRAML Investigator overseeing fraud investigations and AML compliance for financial services company. Managing onboarding and due diligence for merchant activity in the Moov payment network.

• Investigates & analyzes the origin and cause of fire and explosion events
• Collects evidence and documents scenes
• Interviews witnesses and canvasses neighborhoods
• Identifies and documents compliance with applicable codes
• Prepares accurate and concise reports outlining damages

Fire & Explosion Investigator conducting risk analysis for Envista Forensics

Fire Investigator – Part Time

Fire & Explosion Investigator for Envista Forensics in Northern California. Analyzing fire incidents and preparing thorough reports for clients while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

• Conducting desktop-based investigations to identify treatment locations for individuals under investigation
• Reporting findings promptly and accurately
• Researching and conducting outbound calls to medical providers
• Reviewing assignments to determine additional case objectives and client expectations
• Communicating with clients and managers regarding assignments
• Preparing detailed and accurate investigation reports
• Identifying red flags or inconsistencies and making solid recommendations for further investigation
• Balancing and tracking caseloads and inputting case-related time
• Completing continual training related to HIPAA, permissible purpose, insurance investigations, and internal policies/procedures
• Maintaining strict confidentiality and adhering to legal/ethical guidelines
• Attending and testifying at hearings as needed

Medical Canvass Investigator conducting investigations for the insurance industry

Medical Canvass Investigator

Medical Canvass Investigator conducting desktop-based investigations for treatment locations. Performing research and reporting findings promptly for the insurance industry's clients.

• Lead and execute end-to-end digital forensic investigations across endpoint, cloud, email, identity, and SaaS environments.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis for insider threat, data exfiltration, IP theft, fraud, employee misconduct, and ethics matter investigations.
• Support SIRT as the Advanced Forensic Tier on high-severity security incidents — establishing attribution, root cause, and precise forensic timelines.
• Perform forensic imaging and acquisition of endpoints and storage media in accordance with established forensic standards and chain of custody protocols, ensuring evidence integrity from collection through analysis.
• Conduct structured forensic analysis using industry-standard platforms including Magnet AXIOM Cyber, Cellebrite Endpoint Collector, Cellebrite Endpoint Investigator, and Sumuri Recon.
• Collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence in a forensically sound manner, maintaining chain of custody and evidentiary integrity throughout.
• Produce executive-quality investigation reports suitable for HR proceedings, legal review, litigation support, and regulatory disclosure.
• Manage the Santa Clara Forensic Laboratory as the day-to-day operational lead: oversee evidence intake, storage, processing workflows, and maintain strict adherence to chain-of-custody protocols and forensic standards.

Senior Digital Forensic Investigator managing investigations at Cohesity

Senior Digital Forensic Investigator

Senior Digital Forensic Investigator overseeing digital forensic investigations and lab operations at Cohesity. Leading complex investigations and ensuring adherence to chain-of-custody protocols in the Santa Clara facility.

• Lead complex SMS investigations to proactively identify and mitigate risks to unreleased products, prototypes, confidential hardware, secure manufacturing programs, and launch-readiness efforts.
• Investigate unauthorized disclosure, suspected leaks, insider risk, supplier compromise, vendor misconduct, theft, diversion, tampering, counterfeiting, surveillance, adversarial collection, and suspicious activity involving sensitive programs.
• Connect digital evidence, physical access activity, supply chain records, manufacturing data, vendor behavior, employee activity, collaboration metadata, procurement records, shipping data, and OSINT into clear findings and risk-reduction actions.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to surface early indicators of compromise, collection, leakage, or insider activity affecting sensitive programs.
• Develop investigative playbooks, evidence-handling standards, escalation paths, reporting mechanisms, and recurring-risk feedback loops tailored to secure manufacturing and stealth environments.

Investigator for Secure Manufacturing & Stealth programs at OpenAI

Secure Manufacturing, Stealth Investigator

Lead investigations to secure unreleased products and manufacturing programs at OpenAI. Focus on insider risks, supplier misconduct, and data integrity in sensitive environments.

• Responsible for the identification, investigation and development of cases against perpetrators of healthcare fraud
• Claim reviews for appropriate coding, data mining, entity review, law enforcement referral
• Responsible for identifying and developing enterprise-wide specific healthcare investigations
• Effectively establish rapport and on-going working relationship with law enforcement
• May assist in training of internal and external entities

Investigator II responsible for healthcare fraud investigation and claim reviews

Investigator II

Investigator II investigating healthcare fraud and conducting claim reviews across multiple health plans. Collaborating with law enforcement and assisting in policy development for preventive measures.

• The investigator will generate new investigations, and to continue with ongoing investigation and civil actions involving fraud in areas such as healthcare, contracting, and grants, as well as other fraud and abuse of federal public funds and programs.
• Regularly meets with the ACE attorneys and with designated agency personnel for the purpose of generating fraud investigations.
• Performs a variety of ancillary investigations-related services in direct support of any assigned fraud.
• Utilizes electronic databases such as public records, property records, business records, and other government-maintained databases, to identify documents, witnesses and other physical evidence.
• Prepares reports on progress of investigations for use by AUSAs and supervisory attorneys. These reports may include significant findings and conclusions, analyses of information located in electronic databases, presentations, recommendations for additional investigative actions and candid assessments of strengths and weaknesses of witnesses, documentary evidence, or other aspects of a case.
• Examines books, ledgers, payrolls, cost reports, billing statements, invoices, correspondence, computer data, and other records pertaining to the transactions, events, or allegations under investigation.
• Performs sophisticated analyses of large-scale hard-copy and electronic data, such as health care claims data, financial transaction data, accounting records, or bank records to develop investigative leads and to determine their potential relevance to the allegations at issue.
• Gathers and analyzes facts including witness statements, timelines, and scientific or technical data for the purpose of advancing investigative objectives. Establishes and verifies relationships between facts and evidence obtained or presented to confirm authenticity of documents, to corroborate witness statements, and to otherwise build proof necessary for successful litigation or settlement.
• Develops and analyzes evidence and collects information relating to such evidence, or other legal matters under consideration, from appropriate primary and secondary sources. Performs analysis to clarify the target suspect's or organization's pattern of operations, to identify information relevant to the legal issues involved, and to recommend valuable approaches to the AUSAs or other members of the investigative team. Develops and refines proof required to assist in determining legal responsibility for violations.
• Assists ACE AUSAs with in-person and/or telephonic interviews of witnesses, depositions, and sworn witness examinations.
• Assists with the preparation and service of subpoenas for documentary materials, interrogatory answers, or witness testimony in connection with ACE investigations.
• Develops an understanding of all applicable federal, state, or local laws to the extent necessary to make sound decisions on direction and scope of investigations. Determines proof required to affix responsibility for violations, and devise methods for obtaining, preserving, and presenting evidence to the greatest effect.
• Assists with determining the most efficacious methods for planning, scheduling, and conducting investigations, and identifies any resources that may be required.
• Performs other related ACE investigator duties as assigned and within scope.
• Attends meetings and trainings as may be required and appropriate.

ACE Investigator supporting federal initiatives on fraud detection and investigations

Affirmative Civil Enforcement Investigator

ACE Investigator supporting federal initiatives primarily focused on fraud detection and investigative actions. Involves collaboration with attorneys and various documentation analysis.

• Detect and investigate attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for cyber operations
• Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect sophisticated threat actors
• Create actionable intelligence reports on new attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and threat actor TTPs
• Conduct cross-platform threat analysis using open-source research, dark web monitoring, and internal data
• Implement systematic improvements to safety approach based on investigation findings
• Study trends to anticipate how AI systems could be misused
• Build and maintain relationships with external threat intelligence partners
• Work cross-functionally to build out threat intelligence program

Technical Cyber Threat Investigator on Threat Intelligence team at Anthropic

Technical Cyber Threat Investigator

Technical Cyber Threat Investigator responsible for detecting and investigating misuse of AI systems at Anthropic. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance cybersecurity measures against emerging threats.

• Detect and investigate attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for CBRN-E threats
• Conduct technical investigations using SQL, Python, and other tools
• Develop CBRN-E-specific detection capabilities
• Create actionable intelligence reports on CBRN-E attack vectors
• Conduct cross-platform threat analysis grounded in real threat actor behavior
• Collaborate with policy and enforcement teams for informed decisions
• Engage with external stakeholders including government agencies
• Inform safety-by-design strategies regarding AI technology misuse

Technical CBRN-E Threat Investigator at Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team

Technical CBRN-E Threat Investigator

Technical CBRN-E Threat Investigator detecting and investigating misuse of AI systems for threats. Collaborating with diverse teams to protect against CBRN-E misuse and developing detection techniques.

• 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.

Technical Abuse Investigator detecting and disrupting malicious use of OpenAI’s platform

Technical Abuse Investigator

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.

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