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

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 Full-stack 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.

Please note that this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end,from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
• Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
• Take a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Favor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
• Intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations

Nice to Have

• Prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

Salary

$266K - $445K