Fraud & Risk Analyst
OpenAI
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Go To Market
Compensation
- 280000 $280K • 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.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
The Account & Platform Integrity team protects OpenAI’s ecosystem from fraud, impersonation, abuse, and account-level threats. We ensure that the people and organizations using OpenAI are who they claim to be, that access is used appropriately, and that bad actors are prevented from exploiting the platform.
We operate at the intersection of identity, access, compliance, and abuse prevention, working closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Go-To-Market, and Support teams to stop harmful activity before it impacts users, customers, or the business. Our work directly protects revenue, user trust, and platform safety across ChatGPT, the API, and enterprise products.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Fraud & Risk Analyst to help safeguard OpenAI by investigating, validating, and monitoring customer accounts and organizations. You will focus on identity, legitimacy, and risk, ensuring accounts are properly verified, access is appropriate, and emerging threats are detected early.
You’ll handle sensitive and high-stakes investigations involving fraud, impersonation, sanctions, misuse of access, and coordinated abuse. Your work will directly influence who can use OpenAI’s products and how safely we can scale.
Note: This role may involve reviewing sensitive, confidential, or disturbing content.
We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week in our San Francisco office.
In this role you will:
Review and verify customer identities, organizations, and ownership structures
Investigate suspicious or high-risk accounts (e.g., fraud, impersonation, shell companies, abuse of API or ChatGPT access)
Evaluate documents, internal data, and third-party sources to determine legitimacy and risk
Enforce account-level actions such as approvals, restrictions, suspensions, or escalations
Serve as the case owner for complex, high-visibility verification and integrity cases
Partner with Legal, Compliance, Sales, and Support to resolve issues quickly and accurately
Handle escalations, appeals, and sensitive customer communications
Help design and improve verification workflows, fraud detection, and risk-scoring systems
Contribute to automation, tooling, and human-in-the-loop review pipelines
Identify patterns of abuse and recommend new controls or safeguards
Analyze data to uncover fraud and abuse trends
Provide feedback to Product and Engineering to improve onboarding, verification, and access controls
Create clear playbooks and guidance for frontline teams handling high-risk accounts
You Might Thrive In This Role If You...
Have 5+ years of experience in verifications, fraud, trust & safety, or risk investigations
Are comfortable making high-impact decisions about who should — or should not — have platform access
Have experience working cross-functionally with Legal, Product, Sales, and Operations
Enjoy building systems, not just running them — especially in fast-moving environments
Are calm under pressure, detail-oriented, and trusted with sensitive and ambiguous cases
Thrive in environments that require judgment, speed, and accountability
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.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
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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Compensation Range: $280K