Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence And Investigations at OpenAI
Description
About The Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
The Intelligence and Investigations team supports this by identifying and investigating misuses of our products – especially new types of abuse.
This enables our partner teams to develop data-backed product policies and build scaled safety mitigations.
Precisely understanding abuse allows us to safely enable users to build useful things with our products.
About The Role Protection Science Engineering is an interdisciplinary role mixing data science, machine learning, investigation, and policy/protocol development.
As a Protection Scientist Engineer within Integrity and Investigations, you will be responsible for designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce on abuse on OpenAI’s products.
This includes ensuring we have robust abuse monitoring in place for new products, sustaining monitoring for existing products, and prototyping and incubating systems of defense against our highest risk harms.
- Role: Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Job found on: 9th of May, 2026
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