The Intelligence and Investigations team at OpenAI seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem, and the Strategic Intelligence & Analysis (SIA) team provides safety intelligence for OpenAI’s products by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting real-world abuse, geopolitical risks, and strategic threats.
Requirements
- Familiarity with data mining, statistical modeling, and supervised learning methods
- Understand how to monitor signals or models for data drift, behavioral adaptation, or performance degradation over time, and can diagnose likely causes
- Experience in operationalizing adversarial or strategic risk behaviors, including through red-team exercises, agent-based modeling, or structured scenario analyses
- Comfortable working with Python and SQL
- Experience with quantitative stress testing or Monte Carlo simulations to assess uncertainty and tail risk
Responsibilities
- Discover and define new quantitative risk signals where no established metrics exist, using subject matter expertise to surface early, weak, or unconventional indicators
- Translate complex trust and safety challenges into measurable signals that can be tracked and stress-tested over time
- Develop upstream early-warning and signal frameworks that inform downstream detection and mitigation efforts
- Analyze risk trends to assess the underlying drivers and causal factors behind those changes
- Conduct data mining and statistical modeling to understand how risks originate, evolve, and propagate across systems
- Design adversarial scenarios, and quantitative stress tests to assess exposure, coverage gaps, and vulnerabilities
- Produce clear data-driven briefs to support risk prioritization, contingency planning, and strategic risk products across teams
Other
- Have 3–6+ years of experience in quantitative intelligence analysis, trust & safety, security analysis, or risk-focused research
- Are comfortable working on complex trust and safety domains such as child safety, violent activities, self-harm, or similar high-stakes risk areas
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities
- Relocation support is available
