Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

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.

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:

• 4+ 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