Quantitative Intelligence Analyst

Details

The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. 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. The team informs safety mitigations, product decisions, and partnerships to ensure tools are deployed securely and responsibly.

As a Quantitative Intelligence Analyst, you will focus on discovering novel and emerging risks in complex human–AI systems before they are well-defined, measurable, or widely understood. You will use subject-matter expertise and quantitative tooling to surface weak, early, and unconventional risk signals; build analytic models that explain how harms could emerge; and translate ambiguous patterns into structured, data-driven insight. Your work will inform strategic risk prioritization and planning across the company.

This role is based in office (hybrid, 3 days/week). Relocation support is available.

Responsibilities

• Discover and define new quantitative risk signals where no established metrics exist, surfacing early, weak, or unconventional indicators
• Translate complex trust and safety challenges into measurable signals that can be tracked and stress-tested over time
• Develop upstream early-warning and signal frameworks that inform downstream detection and mitigation efforts
• Analyze risk trends to assess underlying drivers and causal factors
• Conduct data mining and statistical modeling to understand how risks originate, evolve, and propagate across systems
• Design adversarial scenarios and quantitative stress tests to assess exposure, coverage gaps, and vulnerabilities
• Produce clear data-driven briefs to support risk prioritization, contingency planning, and strategic risk products across teams

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative intelligence analysis, trust & safety, security analysis, or risk-focused research
• Comfortable working on complex trust and safety domains such as child safety, violent activities, self-harm, or similar high-stakes risk areas
• Familiarity with data mining, statistical modeling, and supervised learning methods
• Experience monitoring signals or models for data drift, behavioral adaptation, or performance degradation, and diagnosing likely causes
• Experience operationalizing adversarial or strategic risk behaviors (including red-team exercises, agent-based modeling, or structured scenario analyses)
• Comfortable working with Python and SQL
• Nice to have: experience with quantitative stress testing or Monte Carlo simulations to assess uncertainty and tail risk

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents) and paid medical/caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law
• Mental health and wellness support; employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees

Additional Information

• Team: Intelligence & Investigations (Strategic Intelligence & Analysis)
• Workplace: Hybrid (in-office ~3 days/week) in San Francisco, United States
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.