# Technical Abuse Investigator

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $425k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Data Pipelines, Dashboards, Data Science, LLMs, Machine Learning, Incident Response, Abuse Detection, Investigative Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-03-12

> Investigates and disrupts malicious use of OpenAI's AI platform using complex datasets and technical tools. Builds scalable solutions like SQL/Python pipelines to enhance team efficiency; requires 5+ years abuse investigation experience and technical projects.

## Job Description

## 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

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