Technical Intelligence Analyst
OpenAI
About the role
About the Team
The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal and external partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits humanity.
The Strategic Intelligence & Analysis (SIA) team provides safety intelligence for OpenAI’s products by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting real-world abuse, geopolitical risks, and strategic threats. Our work informs safety mitigations, product decisions, and partnerships, ensuring OpenAI’s tools are deployed securely and responsibly across critical sectors.
About the Role
As a Technical Intelligence Analyst, you will produce scaled, rapid risk analysis to generate structured and decision-ready intelligence. You will design and support analytical workflows to help the team identify, validate, and prioritize risks. You will surface novel harms and abuse patterns using an ensemble of technical tools and discovery methods.
In addition, you will scale recurring intelligence workflows to help analysts prioritize information quickly and efficiently. You will help turn recurring intelligence workflows into reusable frameworks, dashboards, AI-assisted workflows, and rapid analysis tools. You will design and implement lightweight technical solutions to help analysts synthesize raw signals into actionable insights at greater scale.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid, 3 days/week). Relocation support is available.
In this role, you will:
- Design and maintain analytical tools, evaluation methodologies, and quality metrics for intelligence workflows.
- Provide structure and technical rigor to analyst-built prototypes, redesigning workflows to be generalizable across use cases.
- Transform recurring needs into reusable templates, notebooks, graders, and lightweight tools.
- Surface novel harms and abuse patterns across a range of ecosystems and behaviors.
- Build rapid analysis workflows around emerging risks.
- Deliver, monitor, and maintain risk tools and dashboards.
- Use SQL, Python, and AI-powered tools to improve analysis speed, coverage, and consistency.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 3+ years of experience in technical intelligence, integrity, trust and safety, operational risk, or a related quantitative risk domain.
- Are strong in SQL and Python, including querying, organizing, and transforming complex datasets.
- Have delivered zero-to-one analyses and turned them into reusable playbooks, workflows, or lightweight tools.
- Have experience with anomaly detection tools, such as PyOD, and discovery processes for surfacing novel or low-prevalence patterns.
- Learn new systems, processes, datasets, and team dynamics quickly.
- Thrive in ambiguous and fas