Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being

The role

A Senior Software Engineer will architect and build foundational systems for family- and youth-facing experiences. This role involves building identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools across OpenAI products.

What you will do

• Architect and implement teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT.
• Build global age assurance systems that are privacy-preserving and tailored to regional compliance needs.
• Design and evolve identity infrastructure to support scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys.
• Help define safety and well-being metrics.
• Continuously improve user trust through technical interventions.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience with identity platforms, auth/authz systems, or user verification at scale.
• Worked on systems with regulatory complexity (e.g., COPPA, GDPR-K, UK OSA, KOSA) or experience navigating legal constraints in product development.
• Comfortable owning complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end, learning quickly, and adapting to fast-changing priorities.
• Can thrive in a cross-functional team, with strong collaboration across policy, research, legal, and product functions.

Nice to have

• Built products or infrastructure for users under 18
• Strong interest in digital safety, youth well-being, or educational technology

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.