Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will conduct complex end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI or misusing its models. You will use telemetry, OSINT and vendor data to find malicious activity, build tooling and AI-assisted workflows to scale investigations, and partner with Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy and Integrity teams to turn findings into detection and enforcement improvements.
Requirements
- Experience in threat intelligence, incident response, offensive security, or a related field
- Experience investigating sophisticated threat actors, including model misuse and platform abuse
- Strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure and tradecraft
- Ability to independently drive deep technical investigations
- Experience using AI to accelerate investigative workflows
- Strong scripting ability
- Ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Conduct deep end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors
- Model attacker behavior and proactively hunt for and disrupt malicious activity
- Leverage internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data and safety systems to produce high-confidence findings
- Translate findings into improvements across detection, enforcement, intel and safety pipelines
- Build tooling, scripts, automations and agentic workflows
- Prototype solutions in ambiguous and emerging problem spaces
- Partner with Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy and Integrity teams
- Produce clear written outputs and recommendations for technical and executive stakeholders
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
