Technical Abuse Investigator

In this role, you will:

• Detect, investigate and disrupt abuse and harm with policy, legal, global affairs, security, and engineering teams via complex datasets
• Develop and iterate on abuse signals and investigative methods, scaling one-off insights to reduce manual effort and expand coverage
• Build and maintain lightweight technical solutions (e.g., SQL/Python data pipelines, investigation templates, dashboards, or internal utilities) for investigators focused on specific harm domains
• Develop a deep understanding of OpenAI’s products, data systems, and enforcement mechanisms, and collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve investigative tooling, data quality, and workflows
• Communicate investigation findings effectively to internal stakeholders through written briefs, data-backed recommendations, and escalation summaries
• Rotate (infrequently) into an incident response role that requires rapid threat triaging, investigation, mitigation, sound judgement and concise briefing to senior leadership
• Be someone people enjoy working with

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep expertise in at least two of the following domains: agentic AI misuse; automation; encryption; terrorism; fraud; violence; child exploitation; data science; dashboarding; api abuse; product exploits, prompt injection; distillation
• Have 5+ years of experience investigating and mitigating abuse in a relevant domain
• Have 4+ years of relevant technical projects
• Strong presenter on safety work in public or policy settings
• Have experience scaling or automating processes, especially with LLMs or ML techniques