About the job
About the Team
The Intelligence and Investigations team is committed to swiftly identifying and mitigating strategic risks and abuse to foster a secure online environment. Our mission focuses on uncovering emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and collaborating with internal and external partners to enforce effective mitigation strategies that protect against misuse. These efforts are vital to OpenAI's overarching goal of creating AI that serves humanity.
We aim to establish a comprehensive “radar” for AI abuse and strategic risks—integrating internal signals, external intelligence, and real-world events to generate clear, actionable priorities for OpenAI’s safety and product decision-makers.
About the Role
As a Strategic Risk Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a centralized perspective on strategic risk across OpenAI's products and platforms. Your responsibilities will include synthesizing internal abuse patterns, external intelligence, and product signals into actionable risk insights, regular briefs, and practical prioritization inputs.
You will collaborate closely with investigators, engineers, policy and trust and safety counterparts, as well as measurement and forecasting teams to convert complex signals into structured judgments, ranked priorities, and actionable recommendations. This position offers an opportunity to conduct high-impact analysis in a dynamic environment, where clear thinking and communication will directly influence safety decisions, mitigations, and product readiness.
In This Role, You Will
- Monitor and analyze internal risk signals (abuse telemetry, investigation outputs, model and product signals) to identify trends, tactical shifts, and new abuse patterns.
- Conduct upstream and external scanning (OSINT, ecosystem developments, real-world events) and distill implications for OpenAI’s products and threat landscape.
- Identify and thoroughly investigate harms and misuse across products and channels, transforming complex signals into clear analytical findings.
- Connect individual incidents into overarching narratives about actors, incentives, product design vulnerabilities, and cross-product spillover, while pressure-testing hypotheses early in the analysis.
- Produce concise, decision-ready risk briefs and intelligence assessments that include explicit assumptions, confidence levels, and factors that could alter the evaluation.
- Translate analysis into clear, ranked priorities and actionable recommendations that product, safety, and policy teams can implement effectively.

