Experience with large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
Familiarity with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
Strong foundation in software engineering with end-to-end system ownership
Experience in engineering for high-severity harms
Bonus: knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges
Responsibilities
Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems for detecting and triaging high-severity harm
Collaborate with operators and investigators to enhance their workflow efficiency
Develop across the entire stack, including UIs, services, and data pipelines
Engage with cross-functional partners in Product Policy, Platform Integrity, and Safety Systems
Contribute to the technical strategy for child safety tools and systems
Report on impact using data-driven metrics
Benefits
Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI capabilities
Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
Focus on meaningful work that impacts child safety
Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and methodologies
Flexible work environment that encourages innovation
Full Job Description
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.
*Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.
In this role, you will:
7+ years of experience as a software engineer
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 team's 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-end-from 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 artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
