Software Engineer, AI Safety

The role

You will design and implement systems to detect and prevent abuse and promote user safety. You will work with engineers and researchers to build anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure.
• Work with engineers and researchers to use AI techniques to measure and improve AI models' alignment to human values.
• Diagnose and remediate active incidents on the platform.
• Build new tooling and infrastructure to address root causes of system failure.

Required qualifications

• Built and run production services in a high growth, rapidly scaling environment.
• Can debug live issues and restore systems quickly.
• Experience with Python or with modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go.
• Able to quickly ramp up on Python.
• Understand the trade-offs of capabilities and risks.
• Can critically assess risks of a new product or feature and devise innovative solutions to mitigate these risks.
• Possess strong project management skills.
• Self-directed and can remove roadblocks to drive projects to completion with minimal guidance.

Nice to have

• Worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse.
• Motivated and excited to work on present-day AI safety.
• Deployed classifiers or machine learning models.
• Excited to learn about modern ML infra.

About the company

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