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OSINT jobs and hiring demand

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3core + required roles13context + optional mentions7remote-friendly▼ -2 this week

Employer concentration

Coinbase accounts for 3 of 16 mentions (19%). The remaining 13 mentions span other employers.

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OSINT market intelligence visualization

Security · responsibility and evidence

OSINT market guide

OSINT turns publicly available information into an answer to a defined investigation question. The work includes source discovery, verification, entity resolution and reporting; collecting links alone does not establish a reliable conclusion.

16 live roles10 hiring companies44% remote-friendly

Vacancy evidence map

Where OSINT carries hiring weight

Each segment represents roles where OSINT was parsed at that evidence tier. This keeps a required production skill separate from contextual stack language.

2 Core1 Required10 Supporting3 Optional
3core + required19% of mentions
1.6roles per company10 employers

Market interpretation

What OSINT demand means in practice

OSINT turns publicly available information into an answer to a defined investigation question. The work includes source discovery, verification, entity resolution and reporting; collecting links alone does not establish a reliable conclusion.

An OSINT specialist may support security investigations, fraud analysis or business-risk research. Show how you distinguished people or organizations with similar names, preserved source dates, corroborated a finding and communicated uncertainty. Public availability does not remove the need to respect the investigation scope and handle personal information carefully.

OSINT & InvestigationsThreat IntelligenceFraud & Risk
Technical references: OSINT reference ↗

Reading the market

Signals to look for

  • Look for responsibility for the question, permitted sources and collection dates.
  • Look for responsibility for independent corroboration and confidence limits.
  • Look for responsibility for a redacted report that separates facts from inference.

Geographic demand

Top OSINT locations

United States11Remote6California, United States2AMER - United States - Colorado - Denver - Wewatta1Arizona, United States1Australia1Boulder, Colorado, United States1Colorado, United States1

Questions candidates ask

OSINT hiring FAQ

What work does OSINT represent?

OSINT turns publicly available information into an answer to a defined investigation question. The work includes source discovery, verification, entity resolution and reporting; collecting links alone does not establish a reliable conclusion.

What evidence should I provide for a OSINT role?

An OSINT specialist may support security investigations, fraud analysis or business-risk research. Show how you distinguished people or organizations with similar names, preserved source dates, corroborated a finding and communicated uncertainty. Public availability does not remove the need to respect the investigation scope and handle personal information carefully.

How OSINT appears in job requirements

Inferred from the title and requirement wording in 16 active roles; each role is counted once. Read the methodology.

Posting evidence, not a company-wide stack claim
Main / core
13%(2)
Required
6%(1)
Supporting / context
63%(10)
Nice-to-have
19%(3)

Skills mentioned with OSINT

A shared posting does not always require both skills. Explicit alternatives are counted separately.

SQL9 together0 both requiredPython7 together0 both requiredAI6 together0 both requiredThreat Intelligence6 together1 both requiredAutomation5 together0 both requiredCybersecurity5 together2 both required

Role graph

Roles hiring for OSINT

Detection & Incident Response 2Finance & Accounting 2Legal & Compliance 2Operations 2OSINT & Investigations 2Security 2Threat Intelligence 2Application Security 1

Latest roles mentioning OSINT

OSINT Specialist

Core

Evoplay — Kyiv, Ukraine

Open Source Intelligence Specialist, Sentinel, Collection Management

Core

Google — Boulder, Colorado, United States

Senior Security Engineer, Frontline Intrusion Operations

Context

Google — California, United States; Nevada, United States; Oregon, United States

Senior Financial Crimes Intelligence Analyst

Context

Remitly — Sydney, Australia

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Nice

Sigma Software

Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services

Context

DoorDash — Remote — United States

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