Full-Stack 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. You’ll partner closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s mission. ## 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 reliable tooling for high-severity safety work. > **Note:** This role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content. ## What You’ll Do - 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 other components needed to solve the problems at hand - Collaborate with partners 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** way ## You Might Thrive If You - Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end (infrastructure, data ingestion, and frontend tooling) - Are energized by integrating new AI models and APIs into practical systems - Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines and/or search/retrieval systems - Are proficient in **Python and/or TypeScript**, and familiar with tools like **Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL** - Are product-minded: design with user workflows in mind and iterate quickly based on feedback - Prefer pragmatic solutions and can ship in fast-moving, low-support environments - Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals - Have prior experience engineering for high-severity harms - Understand the pain points and workflows of operations/investigative teams, and enjoy solving complex investigations ### Bonus - Prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges (e.g., secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC) ## About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. Safety and human needs are central to our mission. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer. Background checks and privacy/accommodation information are handled in accordance with applicable law. **Join us in shaping the future of technology.**
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