Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intelligence

About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products. We are technical in what we build but are operational in how we do our work, and are committed to supporting all products and research at OpenAI. Our Security team tenets include: prioritizing for impact, enabling researchers, preparing for future transformative technologies, and engaging a robust security culture.

About the Role

As a Threat Intelligence Investigator, you will join our OpenAI engineers and researchers in discovering, tracking, and disrupting sophisticated adversary campaigns. This role requires a deep understanding of how threat actors operate. You will produce detailed intelligence reports for key stakeholders, both internally and externally, and effectively communicate technical investigative findings to both peers and non-technical partners. Your curiosity and analytical skills will drive you to build out complex investigations, providing a comprehensive understanding of adversary operations.

In this role, you will:

• Track and disrupt campaigns from sophisticated adversaries.

• Analyze and report on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

• Provide detailed intelligence reports to internal and external stakeholders.

• Communicate technical investigative findings to diverse audiences, including non-technical partners.

• Develop and refine intelligence processes and tools.

• Scale and augment yourself and others by integrating LLMs throughout the investigative lifecycle.

• Collaborate with other security teams to integrate threat intelligence into broader security strategies.

You’ll make an impact at OpenAI by:

• Enhancing our understanding of adversary operations and threats.

• Building and refining threat intelligence infrastructure.

• Innovating on data collection and analysis techniques.

• Automating and streamlining intelligence processes.

• Applying threat intelligence to solve complex security problems.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Extensive experience in threat intelligence or a related field.

• Proven track record of tracking and disrupting sophisticated threat actors.

• Familiarity with how adversaries target organizations and individuals.

• Experience providing intelligence reports to key stakeholders.

• Strong ability to communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• A deep curiosity and passion for building out complex investigations.

• Proficiency with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

• Experience with software development.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or cloud infrastructure platforms.

• Knowledge of modern adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.

• Ability to empathize and collaborate with colleagues, independently manage and run projects, and prioritize efforts for risk reduction.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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