# Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $266K - $445K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## 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.

*Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.*

In this role, you will:

- Have 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

- Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems

- Are 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

- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals

- Have prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms

- Bring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations

- Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

## Benefits

OpenAI offers a comprehensive benefits package, but specifics are not provided in the job posting.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TypeScript
- Spark
- Kafka
- Flink
- SQL
- data warehouses

### Nice to have
- prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges

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