What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Abuse Investigator position at OpenAI?
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
The Intelligence and Investigations team supports this by identifying and investigating misuses of our products – especially new types of abuse. This enables our partner teams to develop data-backed product policies and build scaled safety mitigations. Precisely understanding abuse allows us to safely enable users to build useful things with our products.
About the Role
As a technical abuse investigator on the Intelligence and Investigations team, you will be responsible for detecting malicious uses of our platform and disrupting actors that abuse our policies. This will require expert understanding of our products and data and experience investigating threat actors. You will also respond to time sensitive escalations, especially those that are not caught by our existing tools and safeguards.
This role is based in our San Francisco office and includes participation in an on-call rotation that will involve resolving urgent escalations outside of normal work hours. Some investigations may involve sensitive content, including sexual, violent, or otherwise-disturbing material.
In this role, you will :
Investigate activity and disrupt abusive operations in partnership with our policy, legal, integrity, and security teams, including by conducting cross-internet research
Develop abuse signals and tracking strategies to proactively detect bad actors on our platform
Communicate investigation findings from your work with stakeholders internally and, at times, externally
Develop a categorical understanding of our products and data, and work with engineering teams to improve our data and tooling
You might thrive in this role if you :
Have deep expertise in at least one of the following domains : extremism / terrorism; scams and fraud abuse; national security; or CBRN threats
Have strong familiarity with technical investigations, especially using SQL and Python, in a government / military and / or tech company
Speak another language (ideally Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi), in addition to English
Have at least 5 years of experience tracking threat actors in abuse domains
Have at least 2 years of experience developing innovative detection solutions and conducting open-ended research to solve real-world problems
Experience in presenting analytic work in public or policy settings
Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models
