Remote Threat Intel Investigator & Automation Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 230,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Threat Investigator to protect OpenAI and ecosystem from sophisticated adversaries and model misuse. You will conduct end-to-end investigations, model attacker behavior, and drive improvements across detection, enforcement, and safety pipelines.

You will build lightweight automation, leverage diverse telemetry, and translate findings into high-signal outputs for stakeholders. Remote role with US/UK collaboration and SF HQ engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in threat intelligence, incident response, offensive security, or a closely related field.
• Solid experience investigating sophisticated threat actors, including model misuse, platform abuse, or other adversarial activity in complex environments.
• A strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure, and tradecraft, and the ability to apply that understanding to proactive investigations.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive deep technical investigations from ambiguous signals through to clear, actionable findings.
• Experience using AI to extend or accelerate investigative workflows.
• Strong scripting ability and comfort building lightweight automation, investigative tooling, or workflows that improve scale and repeatability.
• Strong ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors to drive investigations, including directly querying, extracting, and stitching together data where needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical investigations into high-signal outputs for diverse stakeholders.
• Comfort operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors interacting with OpenAI’s models, products, and broader ecosystem.
• Think like an adversary — model attacker behavior, anticipate misuse patterns, and proactively hunt for, identify, and disrupt malicious activity.
• Leverage internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data, and in-house safety systems to produce high-confidence findings on adversarial use of our models in cyber operations, platform abuse, and threats targeting OpenAI.
• Translate investigative findings into concrete improvements across detection, enforcement, intel, and safety pipelines.
• Build tooling, scripts, automations, and agentic workflows that scale investigative throughput and reduce manual effort.
• Prototype solutions in ambiguous and emerging problem spaces, including new product surfaces, novel attacker behaviors, and areas where existing coverage may be limited.
• Partner closely with teams across Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy, and Integrity to operationalize findings and drive meaningful outcomes.
• Produce clear, high-signal written outputs and recommendations that inform decision-making across technical and executive stakeholders.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Offensive security

Adversary behavior

Scripting

Automation

Telemetry analysis

Written communication

Tools

Python

Shell scripting

OSINT

Telemetry data sources

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Technical Threat Investigator to protect OpenAI and ecosystem from sophisticated adversaries and model misuse. You will conduct end-to-end investigations, model attacker behavior, and drive improvements across detection, enforcement, and safety pipelines.

You will build lightweight automation, leverage diverse telemetry, and translate findings into high-signal outputs for stakeholders. Remote role with US/UK collaboration and SF HQ engagement.