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Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City · US - Remote

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Frontier labremote$347k–$510k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Investigate sophisticated threat actors targeting OpenAI models and ecosystem.
  • Build AI-assisted tooling to scale investigations and drive disruption.
  • Hunt proactive misuse of AI in cyber operations to improve detection.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Deep-dive investigator who thinks like an adversary and thrives in ambiguity. You love hunting sophisticated threats and building lightweight automation to scale impact across security and safety.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure, and tradecraft applied to proactive investigations.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently drive deep technical investigations from ambiguous signals to actionable findings.
  • Experience using AI to extend or accelerate investigative workflows.
  • Strong scripting ability and comfort building lightweight automation and investigative tooling.
  • Strong ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors, querying and stitching data where needed.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills translating technical findings for diverse stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces with minimal oversight.
remote policy
Remote with regular in-person engagement in San Francisco

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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