Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors interacting with OpenAI's models, products, and broader ecosystem.
• Think like an adversary—model attacker behavior, anticipate misuse patterns, and proactively hunt for, identify, and disrupt malicious activity.
• Leverage internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data, and in-house safety systems to produce high-confidence findings on adversarial use of our models in cyber operations, platform abuse, and threats targeting OpenAI.
• Translate investigative findings into concrete improvements across detection, enforcement, intel, and safety pipelines.
• Build tooling, scripts, automations, and agentic workflows that scale investigative throughput and reduce manual effort.
• Prototype solutions in ambiguous and emerging problem spaces, including new product surfaces, novel attacker behaviors, and areas where existing coverage may be limited.
• Partner closely with teams across Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy, and Integrity to operationalize findings and drive meaningful outcomes.
• Produce clear, high-signal written outputs and recommendations that inform decision-making across technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience in threat intelligence, incident response, offensive security, or a closely related field.
• Solid experience investigating sophisticated threat actors, including model misuse, platform abuse, or other adversarial activity in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure, and tradecraft, and the ability to apply that understanding to proactive investigations.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive deep technical investigations from ambiguous signals through to clear, actionable findings.
• Experience using AI to extend or accelerate investigative workflows.
• Strong scripting ability and comfort building lightweight automation, investigative tooling, or workflows that improve scale and repeatability.
• Strong ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors to drive investigations, including directly querying, extracting, and stitching together data where needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical investigations into high-signal outputs for diverse stakeholders.
• Comfort operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces with minimal oversight.