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Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering
Backend Developer
• Remote
• Full-time
• 📍 San Francisco
OpenAI's Threat Intelligence team is looking for a Technical Threat Investigator to conduct deep investigations into sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI and those attempting to misuse its models for cyber operations. The role is remote, with close collaboration across US and UK teams.
Responsibilities
- ▹Conduct deep, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors interacting with OpenAI's models, products, and broader ecosystem
- ▹Model attacker behavior, anticipate misuse patterns, and proactively hunt for and disrupt malicious activity
- ▹Use internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data, and in-house safety systems to produce high-confidence findings
- ▹Translate investigative findings into concrete improvements across detection, enforcement, intel, and safety pipelines
- ▹Build tooling, scripts, automations, and agentic workflows that scale investigative throughput
- ▹Partner closely with Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy, and Integrity teams to operationalize findings
- ▹Produce clear, high-signal written reports and recommendations for technical and executive stakeholders
Requirements
- ▹Experience in threat intelligence, incident response, offensive security, or a closely related field
- ▹Solid experience investigating sophisticated threat actors, including model misuse or platform abuse
- ▹Strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure, and tradecraft
- ▹Demonstrated ability to independently drive deep technical investigations from ambiguous signals to clear findings
- ▹Experience using AI to extend or accelerate investigative workflows
- ▹Strong scripting ability and comfort building lightweight automation or investigative tooling
- ▹Strong ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors, including querying and stitching together data
Soft skills
Strong written and verbal communication, able to translate technical investigations for diverse stakeholdersComfortable operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces with minimal oversight
What we offer
- ▹Relocation assistance available for candidates relocating to San Francisco
About the company
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company continually pushes the boundaries of AI capabilities and works to safely deploy them to the world through its products, while placing safety and human needs at the core of its work and striving to reflect the full spectrum of human perspectives and experience.
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