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OpenAI · 7 hours ago

Technical Abuse Investigator

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Technical Abuse Investigator will be responsible for detecting malicious uses of the platform and disrupting abusive actors, requiring a deep understanding of products and data as well as experience in investigating threats.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
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Growth Opportunities
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

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

SQLPythonTechnical investigationsThreat actor trackingLanguage proficiencyDetection solutionsResearch skillsProcess automationCommunication skills

Required

Expert understanding of OpenAI products and data
Experience investigating threat actors
Ability to respond to time sensitive escalations
Experience conducting cross-internet research
Ability to communicate investigation findings with stakeholders
Development of abuse signals and tracking strategies
Categorical understanding of products and data
Collaboration with engineering teams to improve data and tooling
At least 5+ years of experience tracking threat actors in abuse domains
At least 2 years of experience developing innovative detection solutions
Experience conducting open-ended research to solve real-world problems
Experience in presenting analytic work in public or policy settings
Experience scaling and automating processes

Preferred

Deep expertise in extremism/terrorism, scams and fraud abuse, or national security
Strong familiarity with technical investigations using SQL and Python
Ability to speak another language (ideally Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi), in addition to English

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.

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