# Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Washington, DC
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $198k – $425k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Pipelines, Trust And Safety, Automation, Language Models, Software Development
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Designs and builds systems to proactively detect and enforce against product abuse using data science, ML, and investigations. Collaborates cross-functionally on monitoring new/existing products and responding to critical escalations. Requires 4+ years in technical analysis with SQL/Python.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Scope and implement abuse monitoring requirements for new product launches.
- Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products, including developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks.
- Prototype and mature into production systems of detection, review, and enforcement of abuse for major harms.
- Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling.

## Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience doing technical analysis and detection, especially using **SQL** and **Python**.
- Experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams. An investigative mindset is key.
- Experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and with machine learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code.
- Experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.

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