Protective Intelligence & Threat Analyst

About the Team

The Corporate Security team ensures the physical safety and security of the organization's assets, operations, and personnel. We are committed to maintaining a secure environment that enables our team to focus on advancing artificial intelligence in a responsible manner.

About the Role

As a Protective Intelligence & Threat Analyst, you will identify, assess, and communicate physical security threats affecting OpenAI, its personnel, executives, operations, and assets. You will leverage open-source intelligence, social media, investigative tools, and other information sources to assess violent or disruptive threats, geopolitical developments, and emerging risks relevant to the company.

The role will support a broad range of Protective Intelligence activities, including persons of interest investigations, behavioral threat assessment, executive and individual risk assessments, event and travel security assessments, and time-sensitive intelligence support to Corporate Security and cross-functional partners. You will turn complex and often incomplete information into clear assessments and actionable recommendations that help inform security and protective decisions.

We are seeking candidates with intelligence experience, particularly in protective intelligence, threat investigations, or behavioral threat assessment. Successful candidates will understand the intelligence cycle, OSINT investigative techniques, corporate physical security, risk management, and threat assessment, and will be comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving environment involving sensitive and occasionally high-profile matters.

This role could be based in San Francisco, CA, or may be a remote role for the right candidate. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation offered for those outside of the Bay Area.

In this role, you will:

• Identify and investigate potential physical threats to OpenAI, its executives, employees, facilities, operations, and other assets using OSINT, investigative tools, and structured analytical techniques.

• Conduct persons of interest (POI) and behavioral threat investigations to evaluate the credibility, intent, capability, and potential severity of identified threats and provide appropriate risk mitigation recommendations.

• Conduct individual risk assessments and develop concise intelligence products and briefings that help Corporate Security and protective teams understand the evolving threat environment surrounding executives and other at-risk personnel.

• Assess threats and security considerations associated with executive travel, company events, public appearances, meetings, and other activities requiring heightened protective awareness.

• Provide timely intelligence support to Executive Protection and other Corporate Security partners, translating complex or rapidly evolving information into actionable protective recommendations.

• Research and assess geopolitical, social, activist, and other emerging developments that may create physical security risks to OpenAI personnel, operations, infrastructure, or events.

• Prepare and disseminate clear, decision-oriented intelligence assessments, threat briefings, and other products for senior leaders, protective teams, and relevant stakeholders.

• Analyze and manage OSINT data collections in ways that improve discoverability, retrievability, analysis, and appropriate dissemination.

• Leverage advanced analytical tools, automation, and emerging technologies to improve threat detection, investigations, assessments, and the broader intelligence cycle.

• Maintain and improve methodologies, protocols, and procedures for protective intelligence collection, analysis, assessment, and dissemination.

• Develop strong intelligence-sharing and working relationships across Corporate Security and with relevant internal and external partners.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in protective intelligence, threat investigations, intelligence analysis, behavioral threat assessment, executive protection intelligence, or a related field.

• Strong judgment and the ability to assess incomplete or ambiguous information, distinguish signal from noise, and communicate risk with appropriate context and confidence.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources into concise, actionable intelligence products for audiences ranging from protective operators to technical stakeholders and senior leaders.

• Experience assessing risks involving executives, high-profile individuals, events, travel, or other environments requiring time-sensitive security decision-making.

• Technical proficiency or demonstrated interest in using APIs, automation, Python, data platforms, AI-enabled tools, and other technologies to improve intelligence collection, analysis, and threat detection.

• The ability to operate independently while collaborating effectively within a small, dynamic, globally distributed team and across Communications, Government Relations, People, Legal, Information Security, Executive Protection, and other partners.

• Familiarity with protective intelligence and threat management platforms such as Ontic and with structured behavioral threat assessment methodologies such as those used by ATAP.

• Comfort supporting time-sensitive security matters, including occasional nights or weekends during significant incidents, events, travel, or crises.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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