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OpenAI · 12 hours ago

Technical Abuse Investigator

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$288K/yr - $288K/yr
date5+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a technical abuse investigator, you will be responsible for detecting malicious uses of the platform and disrupting actors that abuse policies, requiring expert understanding of products and data.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Responsibilities

Investigate activity and disrupt abusive operations in partnership with our policy, legal, integrity, global affairs and security teams, including by conducting cross-internet research
Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect bad actors on our platform
Communicate investigation findings from your work with stakeholders internally and, at times, externally
Develop a categorical understanding of our products and data, and work with engineering teams to improve our data and tooling

Qualification

Technical investigationsSQLPythonThreat actor trackingLanguage proficiencyDetection solutionsResearch skillsProcess automationCommunication skills

Required

Deep expertise in at least one of the following domains: extremism/terrorism; scams and fraud abuse; national security
Strong familiarity with technical investigations, especially using SQL and Python, in a government/military and/or tech company
At least 5+ years of experience tracking threat actors in abuse domains
At least 2 years of experience developing innovative detection solutions and conducting open-ended research to solve real-world problems
Experience in presenting analytic work in public or policy settings
Experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models

Preferred

Speak another language (ideally Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi), in addition to English

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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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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Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder

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