Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems (London)

The role

You will build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure to enable operators and investigators to work effectively. You will develop across the stack, including UIs, services, and pipelines, to detect and triage high-severity harm.

What you will do

• Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm
• Design and deliver systems that enable operators and investigators to work faster, more accurately, and more safely
• Develop across the stack including UIs, services, and pipelines
• Interact with partners across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research
• Contribute to the team's technical strategy for child safety related tools and systems
• Report on impact in a data-driven fashion

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript
• Familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
• Prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.