Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems at OpenAI in San Francisco

Job description

• Application
• About the Team
• As a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work.
• *Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Responsibilities

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• 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

• Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling
• Are energized by working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems
• Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
• Are proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
• Take a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Favor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals
• Have prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
• Bring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations
• Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

Skills

Required

• Strong software engineering foundation
• Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript
• Product-minded approach

Benefits

• The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
• More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
• This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
• $266K – $385K • Offers Equity