Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Technical Abuse Investigator, you will be responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting malicious use of OpenAI’s platform, while also scaling investigative processes and collaborating with various teams to enhance safety measures.
- Responsibilities
- 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
- Skills
- 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
- 5+ years of experience investigating and mitigating abuse in a relevant domain
- 2+ years of relevant technical projects
- Strong presenter on safety work in public or policy settings
- Experience scaling or automating processes, especially with LLMs or ML techniques
- Proven ability to quickly learn new processes, systems and team dynamics while thriving in ambiguous, rapidly changing, and high-pressure environments
- Company Overview
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.openai.com.
- Company H1B Sponsorship
- OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 18 in 2022, 10 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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