OpenAI

Software Engineer, Safety Engineering

OpenAI • $145K — $175K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of engineering experience in tech-focused companies
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, React, and relevant web technologies
  • Experience with at least one backend language, preferably Python
  • Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
  • Interest in AI/ML, although direct experience is not mandatory
  • Strong collaboration skills to work with researchers and policy makers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of internal safety tools for OpenAI's models
  • Collaborate with Safety Systems teams to gather requirements and translate them into solutions
  • Build full-stack applications to support safety processes like data labeling and failure case analysis
  • Enhance internal tool usability and performance for quicker safety issue resolution
  • Develop successful internal workflows into external safety products for developers and the AI community.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to make a real impact on AI safety and reliability
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams including researchers and policy makers
  • Access to cutting-edge AI technologies and practices
  • Potential for professional growth in a fast-evolving field
  • Work on projects that shape industry standards for AI safety.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a self-starter engineer who loves building products in an iterative, fast-moving environment-especially internal tools that unlock real-world impact. In this role, you'll build full-stack tooling for our Safety Systems teams that directly improves the safety and reliability of OpenAI's models, including in sensitive areas like mental health and other vulnerable-user protections. Your work will increase the team's velocity in identifying and fixing safety issues and help tighten the feedback loop between policy, data, and the model training cycle.

In this role, you will:
  • Own the end-to-end development of internal tools that help improve the safety of OpenAI's models (with a focus on areas like mental health and other vulnerable-user protections)
  • Partner closely with Safety Systems researchers, engineers, and model policy creators to understand workflows, pain points, and requirements-and translate them into durable product solutions
  • Build full-stack experiences to support core model policy workflows, such as labeling and inspecting data, analyzing and reviewing failure cases, and surfacing insights for iteration
  • Optimize internal applications for usability, speed, and scale to increase team velocity and reduce time-to-fix for safety issues
  • Transform successful AI assisted safety workflows into external facing safety products, that empowers developers to build safer AI, uplift the industry standard for AI safety, and prepare the world for more capable AGI.


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Have 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
  • Are proficient with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
  • Are proficient with at least one backend language (we use Python)
  • Have experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
  • Have an interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
  • Are excited to partner closely with researchers and policy writers to ship tools that directly improve the safety of OpenAI's models

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.
Learn more about OpenAI
Size
100 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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