Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

Location: London, UK; hybrid workplace

Salary: $266K–$445K annually plus equity.

Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company developing and deploying general-purpose AI with a focus on safety and broad human benefit.

What you will do

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

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning systems end-to-end, from infrastructure and data ingestion through frontend tooling.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search and retrieval systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
• Experience integrating new AI models and APIs into practical systems.
• Product-minded approach, including designing around user workflows and iterating from feedback.
• Ability to work pragmatically in low-support environments, navigate ambiguity, and solve open-ended problems with evolving goals.
• Prior engineering experience involving high-severity harms and an understanding of operations and investigative 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 closely with cross-functional teams to develop safety-focused systems.
• Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI capabilities in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations and consideration of qualified applicants in accordance with applicable law.
• Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.