Fullstack Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

About the Team

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

About the Role

As a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety youll build data-intensive AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. Youll 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.

In this role you will:

• 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 teams technical strategy especially for child safety related tools and systems

• Report on impact in a data-driven fashion
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-endfrom 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

• Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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