Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

OpenAI•San Francisco, CA

3d•$266,000 - $385,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems that detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI’s products. We partner closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s goal of developing AI that benefits everyone. 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

4+ years of experience as a software engineer
Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling
Are energized by working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems
Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
Are proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
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