Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City
Frontier labremotesenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build intelligence systems that detect and disrupt abuse across OpenAI products.
- Enable investigators to review high-severity harm faster, more accurately and safely.
- Protect users by advancing AI-powered tooling for critical child safety work.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Product-minded builder who owns ambiguous problems end-to-end and thrives supporting investigators on high-severity safety work with empathy and pragmatism.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong software engineering foundation owning systems end-to-end from infrastructure to frontend
- Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
- Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript
- Familiar with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
- Product-minded approach designing with user workflows in mind and iterating on feedback
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and shipping pragmatic solutions in fast-moving environments
- Experience with engineering for high-severity harms and investigative workflows
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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