Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems
About The Position
The Full-Stack Software Engineer will build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that help operators and investigators conduct high-severity safety work effectively and responsibly. The role is part of the Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team, which builds systems to detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI’s products and partners closely with the Child Safety team and other cross-functional groups. Candidates should understand that the role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content. The engineer will work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver reliable tooling, contribute to technical strategy for child safety tools and systems, and report on impact using data. The role involves developing across the stack, from user interfaces and services to pipelines and infrastructure, while integrating AI capabilities into practical systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Strong software engineering foundation and interest in owning systems end-to-end, from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search and retrieval systems.
- Product-minded approach, with attention to user workflows and iteration based on feedback.
- Ability to find pragmatic solutions and deliver in hacky, low-support environments when needed.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals.
- Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms.
- Understanding of the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
- Experience integrating new AI models and APIs into practical systems.
- Knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges, such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC.
Responsibilities
- Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect and triage possible high-severity harm and enable efficient human review.
- Work closely with operators and investigators to design and deliver systems that help them work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
- Develop across the stack, including user interfaces, services, pipelines, and other components needed to solve problems.
- Collaborate with partners across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research.
- Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety tools and systems.
- Report on impact in a data-driven fashion.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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