# Abuse Investigator - Child Safety

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $158k – $425k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Databricks, Open Source Intelligence, Threat Actor Tracking, Behavioral Analysis, Cross-Platform Research, Data Analysis, Investigation, Language Models
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Investigate and disrupt child sexual exploitation and abuse patterns on OpenAI products. Conduct technical investigations, develop detection strategies, and collaborate with engineering, legal, and external partners.

## Job Description

## 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

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