You will collaborate closely with technical teams to support the development and refinement of new AI capabilities, with a primary focus on quantitative financial risk management domains. Your expertise will drive the selection and rigorous resolution of complex risk-related problems, including market risk modeling, credit and counterparty risk, liquidity and funding risk, operational and model risk, stress testing & scenario analysis, Value at Risk (VaR)/Expected Shortfall (ES), risk attribution, capital allocation (economic/regulatory), and enterprise-wide risk frameworks under regulatory regimes (Basel, Dodd-Frank, IFRS 9, etc.).

This role requires exceptional quantitative rigor, rapid adaptation to evolving guidelines, and the ability to deliver precise, technically sound critiques, derivations, and solutions in a fast-paced environment. As a Finance Risk Expert, you will directly support xAI's mission by helping train and refine frontier AI models. You will teach the models how risk professionals quantify uncertainties, model tail events, assess portfolio vulnerabilities, ensure regulatory compliance, perform stress testing, and make data-driven decisions to protect capital and maintain financial stability.

Your tasks may include recording audio walkthroughs of risk models, participating in video-based scenario reasoning, or producing detailed quantitative risk analysis traces. All outputs are considered work-for-hire and owned by xAI.

Responsibilities:

• Use proprietary annotation and evaluation software to deliver accurate labels, rankings, critiques, and comprehensive solutions on assigned projects
• Consistently produce high-quality, curated data that adheres to strict quantitative and regulatory standards
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to develop and iterate on new training tasks, risk-specific benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks
• Provide constructive feedback to improve the efficiency, precision, and usability of annotation and data-collection tools
• Select and solve challenging problems from financial risk domains where you have deep expertise

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative discipline: Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Financial Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Risk Management, Operations Research, Physics, Computer Science (with risk/finance focus), or closely related field or equivalent professional experience as a quantitative risk analyst, risk modeler, or risk quant
• Excellent written and verbal English communication (technical reports, regulatory documentation, explanatory breakdowns)
• Strong familiarity with financial risk data sources and platforms (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Moody’s Analytics, S&P Capital IQ, RiskMetrics, internal bank risk systems, regulatory filings, Basel/FRB datasets, etc.)
• Exceptional analytical reasoning, attention to detail, and ability to exercise sound judgment with incomplete or ambiguous data

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Professional experience in quantitative risk management, model development/validation, or risk analytics at a bank, hedge fund, asset manager, insurance company, regulator, or consulting firm
• Track record of publication(s) or contributions in refereed journals/conferences on risk, econometrics, statistics, or quantitative finance
• Prior teaching, mentoring, or training experience (university, industry workshops, regulatory training)
• Proficiency in Python/R for risk modeling (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, statsmodels, QuantLib, PyTorch/TensorFlow for ML risk models, etc.) and familiarity with risk systems (Murex, Calypso, Numerix, etc.)
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation, copula models, stochastic processes, time-series analysis, extreme value theory, or machine learning for risk (anomaly detection, credit scoring, etc.)
• Knowledge of regulatory capital frameworks (Basel III/IV, FRB CCAR, SR 11-7 model risk guidance, IFRS 9/CECL, Solvency II)
• CFA, FRM, PRM, CQF, or similar risk-focused certifications
• Previous exposure to large language models, AI safety, or quantitative evaluation pipelines

Location and Other Expectations:

• Tutor roles may be offered as full-time, part-time, or contractor positions, depending on role needs and candidate fit
• For contractor positions, hours will vary widely based on project scope and contractor availability, with no fixed commitments required
• Tutor roles may be performed remotely from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role specific needs
• For US based candidates, please note we are unable to hire in the states of Wyoming and Illinois at this time
• We are unable to provide visa sponsorship
• For those who will be working from a personal device, your computer must meet xAI’s minimum hardware requirements

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

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.

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.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Have 3–6+ 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 and work to ensure that our technology is developed and used responsibly.

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