Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems (London)
OpenAI · London, UK
Frontier labremoteSenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build AI-powered tools that help investigators detect and disrupt child abuse.
- Partner with Child Safety teams to enable faster, safer human review of harm.
- Report on impact in a data-driven way to advance safety strategy.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Product-minded full-stack engineer energized by high-severity safety work who owns ambiguous problems end-to-end and cares deeply about protecting users and empowering investigators.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong engineering foundation with end-to-end ownership from data ingestion to frontend tooling
- 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, iterating quickly on operator and investigator workflows
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and shipping pragmatic solutions in fast-moving environments
- Prior experience with high-severity harms; child-safety knowledge a plus
- Able to work with exposure to sensitive and egregious content
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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