Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering

The role

You will conduct end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors to understand their behavior and infrastructure. You will build tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to scale these investigations and drive security improvements.

What you will do

• Conduct deep, end-to-end investigations into sophisticated threat actors.
• Model attacker behavior and proactively hunt for malicious activity.
• Leverage internal telemetry, OSINT, vendor data, and in-house safety systems.
• Translate investigative findings into improvements for detection, enforcement, intel, and safety pipelines.
• Build tooling, scripts, automations, and agentic workflows.
• Prototype solutions in ambiguous and emerging problem spaces.
• Partner with Security, Safety Systems, Product Policy, and Integrity teams.
• Produce written outputs and recommendations for technical and executive stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 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 in complex environments.
• A strong understanding of adversary behavior, infrastructure, and tradecraft.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive deep technical investigations from ambiguous signals.
• Experience using AI to extend or accelerate investigative workflows.
• Strong scripting ability and comfort building lightweight automation, investigative tooling, or workflows.
• Strong ability to leverage telemetry from diverse systems and vendors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces with minimal oversight.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available for candidates who wish to relocate to SF.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

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