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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Abuse Investigator

Investigate and disrupt platform abuse related to violent extremism and terrorism, develop detection signals, handle urgent escalations, and collaborate on safety tooling. Requires 12+ years threat actor experience and SQL/Python skills.

288k – 425k/yr
Remote12+ YOEOther

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Review leads, investigate activity, and disrupt abusive operations focused on violent and terrorist activities, especially time-sensitive threats to life.
  • Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect harmful activity.
  • Identify operational workflow improvements to expedite work while mitigating risk.
  • Communicate investigation findings to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Develop understanding of products and data; collaborate with technical teams to improve tooling.
  • Support on-call process for rapid threat triaging, investigation, mitigation, and briefings.
  • Be collaborative and helpful.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in counterterrorism and violent activity mitigation from law enforcement, government, crisis response, or similar.
  • Strong familiarity with technical investigations using SQL and Python.
  • 12+ years tracking threat actors or handling cases with violent offenders, extremists, or high-risk individuals.
  • 2+ years developing automated approaches to work.
  • Experience presenting analytic work publicly or in policy settings.
  • Additional language beyond English (nice-to-have).
  • Resiliency for sensitive, high-stress content.

Skills

SQLPythonThreat InvestigationCounterterrorismAbuse DetectionRisk AssessmentData AnalysisIncident ResponseOn-Call TriagingTechnical Investigations

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