Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsiteSenior$266k–$445k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build real-time detection and enforcement systems protecting OpenAI at scale.
- Partner with Trust & Safety and Security to harden defenses against abuse.
- Use GPT-5 and future models to stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A backend engineer with fraud and abuse instincts who thrives in ambiguity and loves learning quickly. You care about safe deployment and balancing strong protection with great user experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in backend and data systems
- 2+ years experience in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations
- Ability to dive into unfamiliar codebases and propose pragmatic improvements
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions
- Strong desire to learn and share knowledge clearly
- Experience with Machine Learning techniques is a plus
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