Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

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

Before you apply

• Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content
• Background checks for applicants will be administered

About the company

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