Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, United States

Salary: $266K–$445K plus equity

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing general-purpose AI systems and products with safety and human needs at the core.

What you will do

• Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect and triage possible high-severity harm and support efficient human review.
• Develop full-stack tooling across UIs, services, infrastructure, data ingestion, and pipelines.
• Design systems with operators and investigators to improve the speed, accuracy, and safety of their workflows.
• Collaborate with Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research.
• Contribute to technical strategy for child-safety tools and systems.
• Measure and report impact using data.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Strong software engineering foundations and ability to own systems end-to-end, from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search and retrieval systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript; familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
• Ability to integrate new AI models and APIs into practical systems.
• Product-minded approach, attention to user workflows, and ability to iterate quickly from feedback.
• Ability to work pragmatically in low-support environments, navigate ambiguity, and solve open-ended problems with evolving goals.
• Prior engineering experience with high-severity harms and an understanding of operations and investigative team workflows.
• The role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges, including secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving environment focused on protecting users and responsibly advancing AI capabilities.
• Collaborate across engineering, policy, integrity, safety, research, operations, and investigations.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law for US-based candidates.