Software Engineer, AI Safety
OpenAI · San Francisco
CHECKED 35M AGO
Frontier labremote$207k–$385k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build anti-abuse and moderation systems protecting users and AI deployments.
- Ensure safe deployment of advanced models and future AGI systems.
- Diagnose live incidents and build tooling to prevent system failures.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A pragmatic engineer excited by AI safety who thrives debugging live systems and balancing product velocity with risk. You care about responsible deployment and driving projects independently in fast-scaling environments.
Requirements
- Built and ran production services in high-growth, rapidly scaling environment
- Ability to debug live issues and restore systems quickly
- Interest or experience in content safety, fraud, abuse, or AI safety
- Experience with Python or modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go
- Experience deploying classifiers or ML models or excitement to learn ML infra
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