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AI Emerging Risks Analyst

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI

Employee count: 201-500

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The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem in close collaboration with our internal and external partners. We are looking for an AI emerging risks analyst to help us understand potential harms and misuse of AI at the frontier in a time of rapid, sustained change.

Requirements

  • Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in trust and safety, integrity, security, policy analysis, or intelligence work focused on a range of emerging risks situated in strategic context and translated into actionable intelligence.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze complex online harms (e.g., harassment, coordinated abuse, scams, influence operations, brand safety issues) and convert all-source analysis into concrete, prioritized recommendations.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with both qualitative and quantitative inputs, including: (1) Casework, incident reports, OSINT, product context, and policy frameworks. (2) Basic metrics and trends in partnership with data science (e.g., harm prevalence, severity profiles, exposure, escalation rates).
  • Strong adversarial and product intuition, able to foresee how actors might adapt AI tools for misuse and evaluate how product mechanics, incentives, and UX decisions influence risk.
  • Experience designing and using risk frameworks and taxonomies (e.g., harm classification schemes, severity/likelihood matrices, prioritization models) to structure ambiguous spaces and support decision-making.
  • Understanding of the application of foresight methodologies including horizon scanning, scenario planning, tabletop exercises, or simulations.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, operations, legal, and policy teams, including pushing for clarity on tradeoffs and following through on mitigation work.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing concise, executive-ready briefs and explaining sensitive, complex issues in grounded, concrete terms.
  • Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments: you can identify weak signals, form hypotheses, test them quickly, and adjust as the product and threat landscape evolves.

Benefits

  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • 401k Matching
  • Retirement Plan

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About OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Developing safe and beneficial AI systems requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. We’re always looking for curious minds to join our team.

The development of AI must be carried out with a knowledge of and respect for the perspectives and experiences that represent the full spectrum of humanity.

Core values

  • AGI focus: We are committed to building safe, beneficial AGI that will have a massive positive impact on humanity's future. Anything that doesn’t help with that is out of scope.

  • Intense and scrappy: Building something exceptional requires hard work (often on unglamorous stuff) and urgency; everything (that we choose to do) is important. Be unpretentious and do what works; find the best ideas wherever they come from.

  • Scale: We believe that scale—in our models, our systems, ourselves, our processes, and our ambitions—is magic. When in doubt, scale it up.

  • Make something people love: Our technology and products should have a transformatively positive effect on people’s lives.

  • Team spirit: Our biggest advances, and differentiation, come from effective collaboration in and across teams. Although our teams have increasingly different identities and priorities, the overall purpose and goals have to remain perfectly aligned. Nothing is someone else’s problem.

Employee benefits

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Flexible Spending Accounts

OpenAI offers flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses.

Life & AD&D Insurance

Employees receive life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.

401(k) with Matching

OpenAI provides a 401(k) with generous matching, helping employees save for retirement.

Conference Budget

Employees have a budget for attending domestic conferences, fostering professional growth.

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OpenAI

Company size

201-500 employees

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Sam Altman

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