Fullstack Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• 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

• 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

• Hybrid work model with relocation assistance offered.