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Abuse Investigator

OpenAI · New York City

$288k - $425k/yrRemoteIntelligence & InvestigationsIntelligence & InvestigationsPosted 4 months ago
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe this requires real-world deployment, continuous learning, and rapid iteration to improve both safety and utility. The Intelligence & Investigations team supports this mission by identifying, investigating, and disrupting malicious uses of OpenAI products. We work at the intersection of investigations, analytics, policy, engineering, and trust & safety to understand emerging threats, develop scalable detection strategies, and improve platform defenses. Our team combines investigative expertise with technical analysis to uncover novel abuse patterns, inform product and policy decisions, and help build durable safeguards across OpenAI’s products. About the Role As an Abuse Investigator on the Intelligence & Investigations team, you will investigate harmful activity on OpenAI’s platform with a particular focus on violent threats, coordinated abuse, and other high-risk threats to public safety. You will analyze complex datasets, identify abuse signals, conduct investigations, and partner closely with policy, legal, engineering, and integrity teams to drive enforcement actions and improve detection capabilities. This role is highly analytical and requires strong technical and investigation skills. Successful candidates are comfortable working directly with large datasets, using SQL to uncover patterns and trends, and leveraging Python or other tools like Codex to automate workflows, analyze data, and support investigations at scale. You will be expected to combine investigative judgment with data-driven analysis to identify emerging threats and develop proactive mitigation strategies. The role is based in New York City and follows a hybrid in office work model. Investigations may involve sensitive content, including violent, extremist, sexual, or child safety-related material. Candidates should be comfortable operating in high-stakes environments and mana

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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