Abuse Investigator - Child Safety

Responsibilities

• Investigate high-severity child safety violations and disrupt malicious actors in partnership with Policy, Legal, Integrity, Global Affairs, Security, and Engineering teams, including through cross-platform and cross-internet research
• Support investigations across other high-risk harm areas where child safety concerns intersect
• Conduct open-source and cross-platform research to contextualize actors and abuse networks
• Develop detection signals, behavioral heuristics, and tracking strategies to proactively identify high-risk users using tools such as SQL, Databricks, and Python
• Communicate investigation findings clearly and effectively to internal stakeholders through written briefs, data-backed recommendations, and escalation summaries
• Develop a deep, working understanding of OpenAI’s products, internal data systems, and enforcement mechanisms
• Collaborate with engineering and data partners to improve investigative tooling, data quality, and analyst workflows
• Support time-sensitive escalations and high-priority investigations requiring rapid analysis and sound judgment
• Represent investigative findings and work externally with the press, governments, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to support timely response to high-priority safety incidents and sensitive investigations

Requirements

• Deep expertise in online child safety and child exploitation threats
• Familiarity or proficiency with technical investigations, especially using SQL, Python, Notebooks and scripts in a government, law enforcement and/or tech-company setting
• At least 5+ years of experience tracking threat actors in abuse domains
• Experience with time-sensitive escalations involving high-risk harm
• Experience presenting analytic findings to senior stakeholders or external partners
• Experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models

Nice-to-Haves

• Speak one or more languages in addition to English