Quantitative Intelligence Analyst
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Intelligence & Investigations
Compensation
$198K – $320K • 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.
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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 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 deep subject matter expertise and quantitative tooling to surface weak, early, and unconventional risk signals. You will build analytic models that explain how harms could emerge and translate ambiguous patterns into structured, data-driven insight. Your work will help identify potential gaps in policy or coverage and operationalize previously unmeasured problems into signals that can support detection, mitigation, and planning downstream. You will develop analytical frameworks that map how new risks form, evolve, and propagate as products change, policies shift, and external events unfold. Your analyses will directly inform strategic risk prioritization and planning across the company, with regular visibility through strategic risk products.
This role is based in office (hybrid, 3 days/week). Relocation support is available
In this role, you will:
Discover and define new quantitative risk signals where no established metrics exist, using subject matter expertise to surface 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 the underlying drivers and causal factors behind those changes
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
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have 3+ years of experience in quantitative intelligence analysis, trust & safety, security analysis, or risk-focused research
Are 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
Understand how to monitor signals or models for data drift, behavioral adaptation, or performance degradation over time, and can diagnose likely causes
Experience in operationalizing adversarial or strategic risk behaviors, including through 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
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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We're looking for a Head of Competitive Intelligence to build and lead a world-class competitive intelligence function. This person will transform market signals into strategic advantage by developing the frameworks, analysis, and insights that inform our product strategy, go-to-market approach, and executive decision-making.
This is not a research role. It's a highly cross-functional strategy role that sits at the intersection of Product, GTM, Research, and Leadership. You'll establish the systems, operating cadence, and analytical rigor that help the company understand where we win, where we're vulnerable, and how the market is evolving.
What You'll Do
Build and own the company's competitive intelligence strategy and operating model.
Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments, including Harvey Ball analyses, feature matrices, product comparisons, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews.
Create executive-ready competitive insights that influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, pricing, and investment decisions.
Build best-in-class objection handling and competitive messaging for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partnerships.
Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding, and GTM motions, synthesizing complex information into clear strategic recommendations.
Establish repeatable processes and tooling for collecting, validating, and distributing competitive intelligence across the company.
Partner closely with Product Management to inform roadmap decisions and identify areas of strategic differentiation.
Collaborate with Marketing to sharpen positioning and messaging based on competitive dynamics.
Support executive leadership with board-ready competitive analyses and market briefings.
Build dashboards and reporting that track competitive movements and emerging industry trends.
Develop frameworks that evaluate competitors across capabilities, enterprise readiness, developer experience, ecosystem, security, and customer value—not just feature parity.
What We're Looking For:
15+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, strategy consulting, product strategy, corporate strategy, or a similar analytical role.
Experience building a competitive intelligence function from the ground up.
Exceptional analytical and structured thinking skills with the ability to distill complex markets into clear frameworks.
Strong understanding of enterprise software, AI platforms, SaaS, or cloud technologies.
Experience producing executive-facing strategic analyses and recommendations.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.
Ability to synthesize quantitative data, qualitative research, customer feedback, and market intelligence into actionable insights.
Experience partnering across Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Executive teams.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where competitive landscapes evolve rapidly.
Nice to Have
Experience in AI, machine learning, foundation models, or developer platforms.
Familiarity with benchmarking methodologies, win/loss programs, and competitive positioning frameworks.
Experience supporting enterprise sales organizations with battlecards and competitive enablement.
Background in management consulting or strategic planning.
Success in This Role:
Built a trusted competitive intelligence function that informs company strategy.
Established a single source of truth for competitive analyses and market insights.
Created executive dashboards and recurring competitive reviews that shape product and GTM decisions.
Enabled Sales and Marketing with best-in-class competitive content that improves win rates.
Helped leadership identify emerging market opportunities and competitive risks before they become obvious.
You'll thrive in this role if you're intellectually curious, highly analytical, and able to connect disparate signals into compelling strategic narratives. You enjoy building systems from scratch, influencing without authority, and helping an organization make better decisions through deep understanding of the competitive landscape.
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 .
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.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this .
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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