Agentic Risk Analyst

Agentic Risk Analyst

Team: Intelligence & Investigations

Location: San Francisco

Employment type: FullTime

Workplace type: Hybrid

Remote: yes

Published: 2026-06-11T19:20:34.931+00:00

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.

You will work closely with investigators, engineers, product, policy, safety, and security teams, and measurement and forecasting experts who lead longer-horizon risk discovery and scenario work to maintain a shared operating picture of current risks, mitigation priorities, owners, and dependencies. This is an opportunity to help shape how OpenAI coordinates decisions and follow-through across the evolving risk landscape of increasingly capable agentic systems, ensuring that safety decisions keep pace with rapidly advancing technology.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• 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.

YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU

• 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 risk, safety, security, or integrity program, clarifying ownership, resolving dependencies, escalating gaps, and driving follow-through without direct authority.

• Have exceptional analytical judgment and experience producing assessments under uncertainty. You can identify weak signals, develop and test hypotheses, distinguish signal from noise, communicate assumptions and confidence levels clearly, and update...