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Fraud Investigator roles at U.S. financial institutions, insurers, and government contractors regularly qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process. Employers file on your behalf, certifying that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. Your investigative credentials, degree, and professional certifications directly shape which EB category fits your case.
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The Account & Platform Integrity team protects OpenAI’s ecosystem from fraud, impersonation, abuse, and account-level threats. We help ensure that the people and organizations using OpenAI are legitimate, that access is used appropriately, and that bad actors are prevented from exploiting our platform.
We operate at the intersection of fraud prevention, identity, access, compliance, and abuse detection. Our team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Go-To-Market, Support, and Security to identify emerging threats, investigate suspicious behavior, and build durable controls that protect OpenAI’s users, revenue, and reputation across all of OpenAI's products.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re hiring a Fraud Investigator to help safeguard OpenAI by identifying, investigating, and mitigating fraud and abuse across customer accounts, organizations, and platform usage.
In this role, you will lead complex investigations involving stolen credentials, synthetic or deceptive accounts, payment fraud, coordinated abuse, impersonation, misuse of API access, and other high-risk behaviors. You will combine investigative judgment with deep analytical work, leveraging OpenAI’s internal tools, product signals, data systems, and emerging AI capabilities to detect threats early and make high-quality enforcement decisions.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both hands-on investigations and using advanced tools to uncover patterns, scale operations, and improve how fraud is detected across a rapidly evolving platform.
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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Investigate Fraud and Protect the Platform
- Conduct end-to-end investigations into suspicious or high-risk accounts, organizations, and transactions
- Identify fraud typologies such as account takeovers, credential theft, payment fraud, fake identities, promotion abuse, impersonation, and abuse of OpenAI products
- Review internal signals, behavioral data, customer information, and third-party intelligence sources to determine legitimacy and risk
- Make enforcement recommendations including approvals, restrictions, suspensions, escalations, or enhanced review
Use Advanced Tools and AI to Detect Threats
- Leverage OpenAI’s internal tooling, data systems, and AI products to accelerate investigations and improve decision quality
- Use data analysis, pattern recognition, and investigative workflows to uncover coordinated abuse or emerging fraud campaigns
- Partner with technical teams to operationalize new signals, models, and automation capabilities
- Continuously evaluate how AI can improve investigator productivity, speed, and precision
Lead High-Risk Cases
- Own complex, sensitive, or high-visibility fraud investigations from intake through resolution
- Support escalations involving enterprise customers, strategic accounts, or novel abuse vectors
- Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Security, Product, Sales, and Support to resolve issues quickly and accurately
- Handle appeals and sensitive customer interactions where strong judgment is required
Build Better Systems
- Help improve fraud detection frameworks, review workflows, and account integrity controls
- Identify gaps in current processes and recommend scalable solutions
- Create playbooks, SOPs, and investigative guidance for operational teams
- Provide feedback to Product and Engineering to reduce fraud attack surface at the source
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IF YOU…
- Have 5+ years of experience in fraud investigations, trust & safety, platform abuse, financial crime, risk operations, or related fields
- Have strong investigative instincts and know how to connect fragmented signals into clear decisions
- Are comfortable using data, tooling, and AI systems to solve problems at scale
- Have experience handling account takeovers, payment fraud, synthetic identities, scams, or platform abuse
- Can make high-impact decisions under ambiguity with sound judgment and urgency
- Communicate clearly and work effectively across Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
- Enjoy building new processes and capabilities in fast-moving environments
- Are curious about emerging threats and excited to help define fraud prevention in the age of AI
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.
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.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $252K – $280K + Offers Equity
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Account & Platform Integrity team protects OpenAI’s ecosystem from fraud, impersonation, abuse, and account-level threats. We help ensure that the people and organizations using OpenAI are legitimate, that access is used appropriately, and that bad actors are prevented from exploiting our platform.
We operate at the intersection of fraud prevention, identity, access, compliance, and abuse detection. Our team partners closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Go-To-Market, Support, and Security to identify emerging threats, investigate suspicious behavior, and build durable controls that protect OpenAI’s users, revenue, and reputation across all of OpenAI's products.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re hiring a Fraud Investigator to help safeguard OpenAI by identifying, investigating, and mitigating fraud and abuse across customer accounts, organizations, and platform usage.
In this role, you will lead complex investigations involving stolen credentials, synthetic or deceptive accounts, payment fraud, coordinated abuse, impersonation, misuse of API access, and other high-risk behaviors. You will combine investigative judgment with deep analytical work, leveraging OpenAI’s internal tools, product signals, data systems, and emerging AI capabilities to detect threats early and make high-quality enforcement decisions.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both hands-on investigations and using advanced tools to uncover patterns, scale operations, and improve how fraud is detected across a rapidly evolving platform.
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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Investigate Fraud and Protect the Platform
- Conduct end-to-end investigations into suspicious or high-risk accounts, organizations, and transactions
- Identify fraud typologies such as account takeovers, credential theft, payment fraud, fake identities, promotion abuse, impersonation, and abuse of OpenAI products
- Review internal signals, behavioral data, customer information, and third-party intelligence sources to determine legitimacy and risk
- Make enforcement recommendations including approvals, restrictions, suspensions, escalations, or enhanced review
Use Advanced Tools and AI to Detect Threats
- Leverage OpenAI’s internal tooling, data systems, and AI products to accelerate investigations and improve decision quality
- Use data analysis, pattern recognition, and investigative workflows to uncover coordinated abuse or emerging fraud campaigns
- Partner with technical teams to operationalize new signals, models, and automation capabilities
- Continuously evaluate how AI can improve investigator productivity, speed, and precision
Lead High-Risk Cases
- Own complex, sensitive, or high-visibility fraud investigations from intake through resolution
- Support escalations involving enterprise customers, strategic accounts, or novel abuse vectors
- Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Security, Product, Sales, and Support to resolve issues quickly and accurately
- Handle appeals and sensitive customer interactions where strong judgment is required
Build Better Systems
- Help improve fraud detection frameworks, review workflows, and account integrity controls
- Identify gaps in current processes and recommend scalable solutions
- Create playbooks, SOPs, and investigative guidance for operational teams
- Provide feedback to Product and Engineering to reduce fraud attack surface at the source
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IF YOU…
- Have 5+ years of experience in fraud investigations, trust & safety, platform abuse, financial crime, risk operations, or related fields
- Have strong investigative instincts and know how to connect fragmented signals into clear decisions
- Are comfortable using data, tooling, and AI systems to solve problems at scale
- Have experience handling account takeovers, payment fraud, synthetic identities, scams, or platform abuse
- Can make high-impact decisions under ambiguity with sound judgment and urgency
- Communicate clearly and work effectively across Legal, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
- Enjoy building new processes and capabilities in fast-moving environments
- Are curious about emerging threats and excited to help define fraud prevention in the age of AI
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.
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.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
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.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $252K – $280K + Offers Equity
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Fraud Investigator
Align your credentials to EB category requirements
EB-2 requires a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive investigative experience, or a master's degree in criminal justice, forensic accounting, or a related field. Pull your transcripts and certification records now so your employer's attorney can confirm your category before PERM filing begins.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Large banks, insurance carriers, federal contractors, and healthcare systems file PERM most often for fraud roles. Search Migrate Mate to filter Fraud Investigator openings by employers who have sponsored green cards, so you're not discovering sponsorship willingness after an offer is made.
Document your specialized investigative competencies clearly
PERM requires the job duties in the labor certification to match your actual background. Keep a detailed record of fraud typologies you've handled, tools like case management software or link-analysis platforms you've used, and any certifications such as CFE that define the role's specialty.
Understand how OFLC prevailing wage affects your offer
DOL sets the prevailing wage for your specific job title, location, and experience level using the OFLC Wage Search before your employer can file the PERM application. If the offered salary falls below that wage level, the PERM will be rejected, so confirm wage compliance during offer negotiation.
Ask employers directly about their PERM filing timeline
Green card processing for Fraud Investigator roles typically spans two to four years from PERM filing through I-485 approval. Ask during hiring whether the employer has in-house immigration counsel or uses a law firm, and whether they've sponsored this exact role before, since prior filings signal process familiarity.
Verify E-Verify enrollment for background-sensitive employers
Many financial institutions and government contractors that sponsor Fraud Investigators are E-Verify participants, meaning USCIS will electronically verify your work authorization at onboarding. Confirm your documents are consistent and current before your start date to avoid delays that could affect your status transition during the green card process.
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Find Fraud Investigator JobsFraud Investigator Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Fraud Investigator roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Both categories apply depending on your credentials. EB-2 fits candidates with a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of specialized investigative experience. EB-3 covers roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree or two years of skilled experience. The employer's attorney reviews your background against the specific job duties to determine which category the PERM filing should target.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for Fraud Investigator positions?
H-1B is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery, which creates uncertainty. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China. The process takes longer, typically two to four years, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a visa that must be renewed.
Can professional certifications like CFE strengthen a PERM application for fraud roles?
Yes. Certifications such as the Certified Fraud Examiner credential can be incorporated into the PERM job description as a preferred or required qualification. When the role is defined around a specialized certification, it narrows the pool of qualifying U.S. workers, which is relevant to the DOL's labor market test. Your employer's attorney decides how to structure those requirements.
Where can I find Fraud Investigator jobs with confirmed green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Fraud Investigator openings filtered by employers with documented green card filing history, so you can focus on roles where sponsorship is already established rather than asking about it cold. This is especially useful because many employers in financial services and insurance sponsor regularly but don't advertise it prominently in job postings.
What happens to my green card sponsorship if I change employers during the PERM process?
If you leave before your I-140 is approved, the PERM certification is typically abandoned and the new employer must restart the process from scratch. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, portability rules under AC21 may allow you to change to a similar role without losing your place in line. Confirm the specifics with your immigration attorney before accepting a new offer.
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