OpenAI Full-Stack Software Engineer at OpenAI builds AI-powered applications and infrastructure for child safety. Develops systems to detect and triage high-severity harm and supports operators and investigators.
Responsibilities
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.
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
Qualification
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScriptFamiliarity with SparkBonus
Required
7+ years of experience as a software engineer
Strong software engineering foundation with end-to-end system ownership
Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
Familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
Preferred
Experience working at the frontier of AI capabilities integrating new models and APIs
Product-minded approach with user workflow design and rapid iteration
Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC
