Fullstack Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

OpenAI

97d

About The Position

As a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Requirements

• Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling
• Are proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
• Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
• Take a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Favor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals
• Have prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
• Bring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations

Nice To Haves

• Bonus: prior 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, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm
• Work hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
• Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face.
• Interact with partners across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research
• Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems
• Report on impact in a data-driven fashion

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to new employees
• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees