Abuse Investigator - Child Safety

Responsibilities

• Investigate high-severity child safety violations and disrupt malicious actors in partnership with Policy, Legal, Integrity, and Engineering teams
• Conduct open-source and cross-platform research to contextualize actors and abuse networks
• Develop detection signals, behavioral heuristics, and tracking strategies using SQL, Databricks, and Python
• Communicate investigation findings through written briefs and data-backed recommendations
• Collaborate with engineering to improve investigative tooling and analyst workflows
• Support time-sensitive escalations and participate in a rotating on-call schedule

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience tracking threat actors in abuse domains
• Deep expertise in online child safety and child exploitation threats
• Proficiency with technical investigations using SQL, Python, and Notebooks
• Experience working on time-sensitive escalations involving high-risk harm
• Ability to work with sensitive and disturbing material, including sexual or violent content

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in one or more languages in addition to English
• Experience scaling and automating processes using language models
• Experience presenting analytic findings to senior stakeholders or external partners

About the Company

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