Fullstack Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

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About the Team

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

About the Role

As a Fullstack 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 well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. The team uses a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offers relocation assistance to new employees.

Candidates should understand 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 hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
• Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face.
• Interact 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 in a data-driven fashion.

Requirements / Desired Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation 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/retrieval systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Familiarity with tools and ecosystems such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
• Experience integrating AI models and model APIs into practical systems.
• Product-minded approach: design with user workflows in mind and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Ability to deliver pragmatic solutions in low-support or ambiguous environments.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals.
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms is a plus.
• Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC.

Location & Work Model

• Primary location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid — 3 days in office per week).
• Secondary option: Remote — US.

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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Benefits & Compensation

• Base pay range: $220,000 - $320,000 per year. Offers include equity and may include performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Retirement plan (401(k)) with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave; PTO; company holidays.
• Annual learning and development stipend; mental health and wellness support.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

Notes

• Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. Applicants should be aware the role may involve exposure to sensitive content.