Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations jobs in United States
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OpenAI · 2 days ago

Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$220K/yr - $425K/yr
date4+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Protection Scientist Engineer role involves designing and building systems to identify and enforce abuse on OpenAI's products, requiring collaboration with various teams and an understanding of data and products.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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Responsibilities

Scope and implement abuse monitoring requirements for new product launches
Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products, including developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks
Prototype and mature into production systems of detection, review, and enforcement of abuse for major harms
Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling

Qualification

SQLPythonData engineeringMachine learningTechnical analysisInvestigative mindsetBasic software developmentProcess automation

Required

Have at least 4 years of experience doing technical analysis and detection, especially using SQL and Python
Have experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams
An investigative mindset is key
Have experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production
Have experience with machine learning principles and execution
Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code
Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models

Company

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
dateFounded in 2015
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.openai.com

H1B Sponsorship

OpenAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (18)
2021 (10)
2020 (6)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$79B
Key Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B

Leadership Team

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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