Agentic Risk Analyst

Compensation

$288K – $425K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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 an Agentic Risk Analyst, you will shape OpenAI’s operating picture for current agentic risk across products and platforms. You will bring a strategic, system-level perspective to current risks, connecting individual incidents, technical findings, abuse patterns, and external developments to relevant workstreams, mitigations, owners, dependencies, and residual gaps. You will analyze how risks emerge through autonomy, multi-step task execution, tool use, memory, retrieval, connectors, computer-use capabilities, and multi-agent workflows, with a particular focus on both adversarial misuse and unintended system behavior. By synthesizing signals from investigations, evaluations, red teaming, security reviews, product launches, external research, and real-world incidents, you will maintain a current view of material risks and evolving threat patterns. Your work will help turn complex and often ambiguous signals into coordinated decisions and measurable follow-through across product, safety, security, policy, and governance teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a current, company-wide portfolio of material agentic risks across OpenAI’s products, platforms, and emerging capabilities, mapping each risk to relevant workstreams, owners, mitigations, dependencies, decisions, and residual gaps.

• Run a cross-functional intake and review cadence for signals from across OpenAI and the broader ecosystem to identify emerging risks, evolving threat patterns, and important shifts in the agentic risk landscape, routing findings to the right owners and decision-makers

• Connect individual incidents, technical findings, evaluations, and weak signals to broader system-level trends, producing clear assessments of impact, severity, evidence, uncertainty, priority, and recommended action.

• Assess how emerging capabilities, product changes, ecosystem developments, and adversary adaptation may affect current risk priorities and launch readiness, surfacing risks that are unowned, stalled, or under-mitigated for decision and escalation, and tracking residual risk after launch.

• In partnership with colleagues who lead horizon scanning, use relevant external developments across AI safety and security research, public incidents, adversarial activity, industry standards, emerging technologies, and competitor products, as inputs to current risk prioritization and mitigation decisions at OpenAI.

• Apply and refine practical frameworks and taxonomies for current agentic failure modes, control gaps, abuse patterns, and potential downstream harms across products, deployment environments, and user workflows, integrating them into the broader risk program.

• Produce concise, decision-ready assessments that communicate key findings, assumptions, confidence levels, competing hypotheses, and prioritized recommendations for product, safety, security, policy, and leadership stakeholders, with accountable owners and next review points.

• Define and track operating metrics for the agentic-risk program, including coverage, ownership, decision latency, mitigation status, and closure and partner with measurement experts on risk indicators and monitoring capabilities.

• Partner with colleagues who lead evaluations, scenario analyses, tabletop exercises, red-team campaigns, and investigations focused on agentic systems, using their findings to drive actionable mitigations, accountable ownership, and measurable follow-through.

Requirements

• Have significant experience,typically 7+ years,in trust and safety, integrity, security, cyber threat intelligence, AI safety, product risk, strategic intelligence, abuse investigations, or a related field.

• Have a strong understanding of modern AI systems and agentic architectures, including hands-on experience using, evaluating, or building agentic systems. You are familiar with AI safety concepts, agentic failure modes, and misalignment risks, and can reason about how agent objectives, incentives, environments, and system design choices may produce unintended or harmful outcomes.

• Have demonstrated experience analyzing how harmful outcomes emerge from interactions between users, products, and technical systems, and can assess how increasingly capable agentic systems may amplify, automate, or transform existing abuse vectors such as fraud, scams, social engineering, coordinated influence operations, cyber abuse, or other forms of platform misuse. You have also helped operate a cross-functional intake and review cadence for signals from across AI and the broader ecosystem to identify emerging risks, evolving threat patterns, and important shifts in the agentic risk landscape.