Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems
OpenAI · San Francisco
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## About the Team The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems that detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI’s products. We partner closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s goal of developing AI that benefits everyone. ## About the Role As a **Fullstack Engineer** focused on **child safety**, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work. **Location:** San Francisco, CA **Work model:** Hybrid — 3 days in the office per week **Relocation:** Assistance available > Note: 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 to design and deliver systems that help them work faster, more accurately, and more safely - Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face - Partner across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research - Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems - Report on impact in a data-driven fashion ## You might thrive if you have: - **4+ years** of experience as a software engineer - A strong foundation and ownership mindset end-to-end (infrastructure + data ingestion + frontend tooling) - Energy for working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems - Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems - Proficiency in **Python and/or TypeScript**, and familiarity with tools like **Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL** - A product-minded approach—design with user workflows in mind and iterate quickly based on feedback - Pragmatism and ability to ship in fast-moving, low-support environments when needed - Comfort navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals - Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms - Intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams ### 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 AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through our products. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer. Background checks will be administered in accordance with applicable law. ## Apply Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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