Full-Stack Software Engineer

About the company

• The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems that detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI's products.
• Partners closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups.

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
• Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required
• 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 ability to own systems end-to-end
• 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
• Product-minded approach and ability to iterate quickly
• Ability to favor pragmatic solutions and ship in low-support environments
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity
• Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
• Bonus: knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC

Conditions

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