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 closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s goal of developing AI that benefits everyone.

As a Full-Stack Engineer focused on child safety, you will build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You will adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver reliable tooling for high-severity safety work.

Candidates should understand that 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 enable them to work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
• Develop across the stack, including user interfaces, services, pipelines, and other systems required to solve operational problems.
• Collaborate with partners across 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 using data-driven methods.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Strong software engineering foundation and experience owning systems end-to-end, from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling.
• Interest in working at the frontier of AI capabilities and integrating new models and APIs into practical systems.
• 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.
• Product-minded approach with an ability to design around user workflows and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Ability to favor pragmatic solutions and ship in low-support environments when needed.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals.
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms.
• Intuition for the pain points and workflows 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

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by applicable law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law, and reasonable accommodations are available to applicants with disabilities.