20 Job Openings for Those Looking to Leave Law Enforcement

Leaving law enforcement does not mean leaving behind the skills, experience, and sense of purpose you developed throughout your career. Companies across the country are actively hiring professionals who can investigate complex incidents, assess threats, manage crises, protect people and assets, and make sound decisions under pressure. The challenge is learning how to position your experience so private-sector employers understand the value you can bring to their organizations.

This week’s list includes 20 recently posted opportunities that demonstrate just how many career paths are available. SpaceXAI is hiring an Analyst for its Law Enforcement Response Team, AMD needs a Corporate Security Investigator, eBay is seeking a Financial Intelligence Unit Investigator, and TikTok has openings in intelligence and physical security. Additional opportunities with OpenAI, Meta, Coinbase, Samsung, Bank of America, and other major employers span fraud investigations, trust and safety, protective intelligence, loss prevention, corporate security, and emergency response.

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Job Title: Analyst, Law Enforcement Response Team Company: SpaceXAI Location: Bastrop, Texas

Summary: This position processes information requests from law enforcement agencies and other authorized entities while protecting user privacy and freedom of expression. The analyst receives, reviews, tracks, and responds to legal requests with a strong emphasis on accuracy, timeliness, and policy compliance. Responsibilities include collaborating with international response-team members, identifying operational trends, and improving request-management processes. This is an especially strong opportunity for officers experienced in subpoenas, search warrants, investigative records, evidence handling, or liaison work.

See Job Here: Analyst, Law Enforcement Response Team

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Job Title: Corporate Security Investigator Company: AMD Location: Austin, Texas

Summary: AMD is seeking an investigator to handle corporate security incidents involving theft, fraud, workplace misconduct, threats, and other risks to employees and company assets. The position involves interviewing involved parties, reviewing records and security data, documenting evidence, and producing clear investigative reports. The investigator will collaborate with Human Resources, Legal, security personnel, business leaders, and law enforcement partners. Detectives and officers with strong interviewing, evidence-management, case-management, and report-writing experience should be particularly competitive.

See Job Here: Corporate Security Investigator

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Job Title: Global Investigator – Federal Law Enforcement Company: TRM Labs Location: Washington, D.C.

Summary: TRM Labs provides blockchain-intelligence technology that helps public- and private-sector organizations investigate and disrupt financial crime. This investigator will support complex cases involving cryptocurrency, illicit financial activity, threat networks, and digital evidence. The role may also involve advising government partners, developing investigative strategies, and helping agencies use blockchain intelligence effectively. It is an exceptional opportunity for federal investigators or experienced state and local detectives interested in cryptocurrency and financial-crime investigations.

See Job Here: Global Investigator – Federal Law Enforcement

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Job Title: Investigator II, Financial Intelligence Unit Company: eBay Location: Austin, Texas

Summary: This investigator conducts moderate-to-complex financial-crime investigations within eBay’s Financial Intelligence Unit. Responsibilities include analyzing transactions and user behavior, identifying suspicious activity, preparing regulatory-quality findings, and drafting Suspicious Activity Reports. The position also helps identify emerging fraud typologies and provides guidance or mentorship to junior investigators. Officers with experience investigating fraud, organized crime, narcotics proceeds, money laundering, or complex financial records could transition especially well.

See Job Here: Investigator II, FIU

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Job Title: Oversight Operations Investigator Company: Meta Location: Menlo Park, California

Summary: Meta is hiring an investigator to review sensitive cases, conduct fact-based inquiries, and support decisions involving platform governance and oversight. The position requires analyzing complex information, identifying inconsistencies, documenting findings, and communicating conclusions to internal stakeholders. Investigators must exercise sound judgment while managing confidential and potentially high-profile matters. Law enforcement professionals with investigative interviewing, case review, intelligence analysis, or supervisory experience may find their skills highly transferable.

See Job Here: Oversight Operations Investigator

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Job Title: User Safety & Risk Operations Analyst – Global Response Company: OpenAI Location: San Francisco, California

Summary: This role supports 24/7 response to high-priority user-safety, fraud, abuse, regulatory, and operational-risk incidents. The analyst evaluates escalated cases, makes time-sensitive decisions, coordinates responses, and works with Legal, Policy, Engineering, Product, and other teams. Responsibilities require excellent judgment, accurate documentation, empathy, and the ability to perform effectively during rapidly evolving incidents. Officers with backgrounds in emergency response, investigations, threat assessment, crisis communications, or digital safety could be strong candidates.

See Job Here: User Safety & Risk Operations Analyst

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Job Title: Intelligence Analyst, Global Trend Detection – Trust and Safety Company: TikTok Location: San Francisco, California

Summary: This analyst identifies emerging trends, coordinated activity, and potential threats affecting TikTok’s users and platform. The position involves analyzing large amounts of information, connecting seemingly unrelated indicators, and producing actionable intelligence for trust-and-safety stakeholders. The analyst will collaborate with investigators, policy teams, safety operations, and other internal partners to support early intervention. Officers with intelligence, gang, narcotics, organized-crime, social-media, OSINT, or crime-analysis experience may be particularly well suited.

See Job Here: Intelligence Analyst, Global Trend Detection

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Job Title: Platform Integrity Manager – Starlink Company: SpaceX Location: Bastrop, Texas

Summary: This manager investigates and disrupts misuse of Starlink services by illicit operators while balancing enforcement with customer privacy. Responsibilities include identifying abuse risks, designing investigative and prevention strategies, and coordinating solutions across multiple business functions. The manager will also serve as a subject-matter expert in relevant investigative techniques, technology, and abuse-prevention practices. Experienced detectives, intelligence supervisors, task-force officers, and investigators with technology-related case experience could be strong candidates.

See Job Here: Platform Integrity Manager – Starlink

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Job Title: Investigative Intelligence Analyst Company: Emergent Risk International Location: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Summary: This analyst will be embedded with a multinational client and support its global security and intelligence team. The work includes due-diligence investigations, threat analysis, geopolitical research, person-of-interest investigations, monitoring, and open-source intelligence collection. Candidates must turn fragmented information into clear assessments that corporate decision-makers can use. Officers with four or more years of investigative, intelligence, surveillance, threat-assessment, or OSINT experience should find considerable overlap with their current skills.

See Job Here: Investigative Intelligence Analyst

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Job Title: Senior Fraud Response Analyst Company: Q2 Location: Austin, Texas

Summary: This analyst coordinates the response to significant fraud incidents affecting Q2 and its customers. Responsibilities include incident intake, investigative support, stakeholder communication, escalation management, root-cause analysis, and remediation tracking. The position works closely with Product, Security, Engineering, and Customer Support to reduce losses and strengthen fraud controls. Detectives and investigators accustomed to managing complex cases, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and identifying repeat patterns could transition effectively.

See Job Here: Senior Fraud Response Analyst

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Job Title: Senior Compliance Investigator Company: Centene Corporation Location: Florida, United States

Summary: This position investigates allegations involving regulatory violations, ethical concerns, misconduct, fraud, and potential noncompliance within a major healthcare organization. The investigator gathers and analyzes records, conducts interviews, evaluates evidence, and prepares detailed findings for compliance and business leadership. The role also supports corrective actions and improvements intended to prevent future violations. Officers with experience conducting administrative, internal-affairs, fraud, public-corruption, or regulatory investigations should have relevant transferable skills.

See Job Here: Senior Compliance Investigator

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Job Title: Retail Private Investigator Company: Turing Location: United States – Contract

Summary: This contract position focuses on retail theft, fraud detection, loss prevention, surveillance, and evidence documentation. The investigator may review incidents, analyze patterns, prepare reports, and recommend strategies that reduce theft and protect company assets. Turing is seeking candidates with several years of private-investigation, loss-prevention, security-management, or comparable investigative experience. Former detectives and officers experienced in surveillance, organized retail crime, interviewing, and criminal case preparation could be an excellent fit.

See Job Here: Retail Private Investigator

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Job Title: Strategic Intelligence Manager, Protective Intelligence Company: Coinbase Location: San Francisco, California

Summary: This position leads strategic intelligence supporting the protection of Coinbase’s people, assets, operations, and reputation. The manager conducts high-impact due diligence, produces geopolitical and threat assessments, and informs executive-level and acquisition-related decisions. The role requires synthesizing intelligence from multiple sources and communicating forward-looking risk assessments to senior stakeholders. Intelligence-unit supervisors, threat-assessment investigators, executive-protection professionals, and experienced OSINT investigators may be especially competitive.

See Job Here: Strategic Intelligence Manager, Protective Intelligence

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Job Title: Head of Physical Security & Safety – USDS Company: TikTok USDS Joint Venture Location: San Jose, California

Summary: This executive position leads physical security, executive protection, emergency response, crisis management, and contract-security operations across a large geographic area. The leader will oversee 24/7 programs, personnel, vendors, and security procedures protecting employees and facilities. Responsibilities also include developing strategy, managing critical incidents, and coordinating with executives and external agencies. Command-level law enforcement officers with substantial operational, emergency-management, protective-services, and personnel-leadership experience may be strong candidates.

See Job Here: Head of Physical Security & Safety – USDS

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Job Title: Physical Security Regional Manager, West Region – USDS Company: TikTok USDS Joint Venture Location: Los Angeles, California

Summary: This regional manager oversees physical-security operations at multiple sites throughout a large geographic area. Responsibilities include access control, video surveillance, visitor management, badging, incident response, emergency preparedness, and contract-security supervision. The manager will establish consistent standards, assess vulnerabilities, and coordinate responses to security incidents. Police supervisors with experience managing personnel, facilities, special events, emergency operations, or regional programs should have a strong foundation for this position.

See Job Here: Physical Security Regional Manager

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Job Title: Corporate Security Executive – Security Incident Response Executive Company: Bank of America Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Summary: This senior role leads corporate-security incident response for a large, highly regulated financial institution. The executive will coordinate responses to significant threats, security incidents, and crises while working with business leaders, investigators, intelligence teams, and external agencies. Responsibilities require strategic decision-making, executive communication, and the ability to manage complex incidents with enterprise-wide implications. Command officers, emergency-management leaders, and senior investigators with experience directing critical incidents could be strong candidates.

See Job Here: Security Incident Response Executive

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Job Title: Director, Loss Prevention Regional Company: Ross Stores Location: Lake Forest, California

Summary: This director protects company assets and leads shortage-reduction, safety, fraud-prevention, and loss-prevention programs across an assigned division. The position supervises regional loss-prevention leaders and oversees internal and external investigations, physical security, training, audits, and third-party relationships. It also partners with senior operations and Human Resources leaders to reduce theft, accidents, and operational risk. Experienced police commanders or investigative supervisors with strong personnel-management and strategic-program leadership could transition well.

See Job Here: Director, Loss Prevention Regional

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Job Title: Asset Protection Manager Company: Samsung Electronics America Location: Plano, Texas

Summary: Samsung’s Asset Protection Manager oversees theft prevention, internal and external investigations, surveillance operations, cash controls, asset tracking, and loss-prevention metrics. The manager identifies vulnerabilities, investigates suspicious activity, coordinates with Legal and Human Resources, and serves as a law-enforcement liaison when necessary. The position also develops training and corrective-action plans for retail employees and business partners. Officers with investigative, retail-crime, surveillance, property-crime, fraud, or supervisory experience should find this role highly relevant.

See Job Here: Asset Protection Manager

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Job Title: Global Security Director Company: Celestica Location: Richardson, Texas

Summary: This director leads global physical-security strategy for a multinational manufacturing and supply-chain organization. Responsibilities likely include protecting facilities and personnel, standardizing site-security programs, managing investigations, assessing risk, and coordinating crisis response across multiple locations. The role also requires partnerships with business leaders, vendors, government agencies, and local law enforcement. Senior law enforcement leaders with corporate-security, emergency-management, international-operations, or critical-infrastructure experience may be strong candidates.

See Job Here: Global Security Director

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Job Title: Director of Security Operations Company: LA Clippers Location: Inglewood, California

Summary: This director oversees security operations supporting the LA Clippers and their facilities, events, employees, athletes, and guests. The position is expected to manage security personnel, operating procedures, incident response, emergency planning, and coordination with law enforcement and venue partners. It requires strong leadership, public-facing communication, and the ability to manage complex security operations during high-attendance events. Command officers and supervisors with experience in special events, crowd management, dignitary protection, emergency response, or venue security could be excellent candidates.

See Job Here: Director of Security Operations