Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations - London

Details

The Applied Foundations team at OpenAI works to ensure its technology remains secure against adversarial threats, including financial abuse, scaled attacks, and other forms of misuse. The Integrity pillar develops scaled systems to identify and respond to bad actors and harm on OpenAI platforms. This is a new team in London focused on architecting next-generation systems that support and scale expert work on harms involving AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and build foundational systems for the detection, tracking, and enforcement of harm involving OpenAI technologies.
• Work with technical and non-technical experts on observed harms to inform system design and implementation.
• Leverage advanced AI technologies to automate and augment the detection and analysis of complex harms with minimal human intervention.
• Collaborate with policy, trust and safety operations, legal, investigations, harm-specialized engineers, and data scientists to combat abusive actors and customers.
• Stay current with techniques and tools for defending against determined and well-resourced adversaries.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience with backend and data systems.
• At least 2 years of experience in trust and safety analysis, investigations, and/or operations.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team with technical and non-technical specialists.
• Ability to understand an existing codebase and provide suggestions that strengthen the engineering position.
• Strong desire to learn and develop missing skills, along with the ability to clearly share knowledge with others.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions.
• Experience with machine learning techniques is a plus but is not required.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks may be administered in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

• Base salary plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• 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 and company holidays.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.