# Abuse Investigator

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $288k – $425k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Threat Investigation, Counterterrorism, Abuse Detection, Risk Assessment, Data Analysis, Incident Response, On-Call Triaging, Technical Investigations
**Posted:** 2026-03-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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