TL;DR

Abuse Investigator (Child Safety): Investigate and disrupt actors exploiting OpenAI’s products for child sexual exploitation, focusing on high-severity violations and emerging threat patterns. Focus on conducting in-depth investigations, developing detection strategies, and collaborating with legal and engineering teams to ensure product safety and compliance.

Location: San Francisco and Remote (US only)

Salary: $158,400–$425,000 + Equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

  • Investigate high-severity child safety violations and disrupt malicious actors in partnership with cross-functional teams.
  • Conduct open-source and cross-platform research to contextualize abuse networks.
  • Develop detection signals and behavioral heuristics using tools like SQL, Databricks, and Python.
  • Communicate findings clearly to internal stakeholders and support enforcement actions including legal escalations.
  • Collaborate with engineering and data teams to improve investigative tooling and workflows.
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for timely response to safety incidents.

Requirements

  • Must be based in the US or able to work remotely within the US.
  • 5+ years of experience in online child safety and tracking threat actors.
  • Proficiency with technical investigations using SQL, Python, and scripting tools.
  • Experience handling time-sensitive escalations involving high-risk harm.
  • Ability to present analytic findings to senior stakeholders and external partners.
  • Comfort with exposure to sensitive and disturbing material related to child exploitation.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in additional languages besides English.
  • Experience scaling and automating processes with language models.

Culture & Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
  • Supportive environment for handling sensitive investigations.
  • Equity offers as part of compensation.
  • Remote work flexibility within the US.