Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

Details

The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems that detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI’s products. The team partners with Child Safety and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s goal of developing AI that benefits everyone.

This role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Responsibilities

• Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high-severity harm.
• Work closely with operators and investigators to design and deliver systems that help them work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
• Develop across the stack, including user interfaces, services, pipelines, infrastructure, and other components required to solve operational problems.
• Partner with Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research.
• Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child-safety-related tools and systems.
• Report on impact in a data-driven manner.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning systems end-to-end, from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search and retrieval systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
• Ability to integrate new AI models and APIs into practical systems.
• A product-minded approach, with attention to user workflows and rapid iteration based on feedback.
• Ability to develop pragmatic solutions and ship in low-support environments.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals.
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms.
• Understanding of the workflows and pain points of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations.
• Bonus: knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges, such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC.

Benefits

• Equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health Savings Accounts, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, paid parental and caregiver leave, paid time off, company holidays, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support, employer-paid basic life and disability coverage, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices, meal delivery credits where eligible, and relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.