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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 Fraud Investigator Jobs
Target regulated industries first
Banks, insurance carriers, and healthcare organizations face federal compliance mandates that drive consistent fraud investigator hiring. These employers have established immigration infrastructure and are more likely to sponsor H-1B or permanent residence petitions for qualified candidates.
Clarify your degree field upfront
Specialty occupation approval depends on a direct link between your degree and the role. Degrees in criminal justice, finance, accounting, or information systems align most cleanly. If your degree is in a different field, document how your coursework directly prepared you for fraud investigation work.
Certifications strengthen your petition
Credentials like CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) or CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) signal industry-specific expertise to USCIS. They also give employers an easier case to make that the role genuinely requires specialized knowledge, not just general analytical skills.
Distinguish your specialization clearly
Financial fraud, insurance fraud, and cyber fraud investigations are treated differently by employers and USCIS. Being specific about your subspecialty, whether claims analysis, transaction monitoring, or digital forensics, helps employers match you to roles and strengthens the specialty occupation argument.
Government contractor roles carry extra scrutiny
Federal contractor positions often require security clearances, which can complicate or delay H-1B sponsorship for foreign nationals. Ask employers directly about their clearance sponsorship policy before investing time in an application process that may stall at the background investigation stage.
Search Migrate Mate for pre-vetted sponsoring employers
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Find Fraud Investigator JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does a Fraud Investigator role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the employer defines the role. Fraud Investigator positions that require a bachelor's degree in a specific field, such as accounting, finance, or criminal justice, typically meet the specialty occupation standard. Roles framed as general investigative work without a degree requirement in a particular discipline are more likely to face a Request for Evidence. The job description wording matters significantly, and employers experienced with H-1B filings know how to document the requirement correctly.
Which visa categories do Fraud Investigators typically use for U.S. work authorization?
H-1B is the most common path for employer-sponsored fraud investigators. O-1A is an option for investigators with exceptional recognition in financial crime, forensic accounting, or regulatory compliance, though it requires substantial evidence. Australians can explore the E-3 as a faster, lottery-free alternative to H-1B. For permanent residence, EB-2 is the typical category when the role requires an advanced degree or the investigator qualifies for a National Interest Waiver tied to financial system integrity work.
Do Fraud Investigator positions at banks or insurance companies sponsor visas more readily than other employers?
Yes, in practice. Financial institutions and large insurance carriers operate compliance and fraud departments at scale, employ in-house immigration counsel, and file H-1B petitions regularly. They're more familiar with the process and less likely to withdraw sponsorship when complications arise. Smaller employers or staffing agencies may offer fraud investigator titles but lack the infrastructure or willingness to navigate a multi-year visa process. Migrate Mate lists employers that have confirmed sponsorship, which narrows the field considerably.
Does a security clearance requirement disqualify foreign nationals from Fraud Investigator roles?
Not automatically, but it complicates things. Most U.S. government security clearances require U.S. citizenship or at minimum lawful permanent residence, which means H-1B holders are typically ineligible. Federal contractor fraud investigator roles that require a clearance are effectively off-limits until you hold a green card or citizenship. Roles in private-sector banking, insurance, and healthcare fraud don't require clearances and remain fully accessible to sponsored workers.
What degree does USCIS expect for a sponsored Fraud Investigator petition?
USCIS looks for a direct relationship between the degree field and the job duties. Accounting, finance, criminal justice, and information systems degrees are the strongest fits. A business administration degree may work if the employer can demonstrate the role requires specific financial or analytical coursework. Experience alone, without a qualifying degree, won't satisfy the specialty occupation requirement for H-1B. If your degree is in an unrelated field, three years of relevant professional experience can substitute for one year of formal education under the equivalency standard.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Fraud Investigator jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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