Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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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