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OpenAI

Software Engineer, AI Safety

OpenAI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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About The Role

At OpenAI, we’re dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and ensuring that our platform is secure and reliable. We’re seeking a software engineer to help us build trust‑and‑safety capabilities that protect users and reduce risk across our products. In This Role

Architect, build, and maintain anti‑abuse and content moderation infrastructure designed to protect us and end users from unwanted behavior. Work closely with our other engineers and researchers to utilize both industry‑standard and novel AI techniques to measure, monitor, and improve AI models’ alignment to human values. Diagnose and remediate active incidents on the platform and build new tooling and infrastructure that address the root causes of system failure. Qualifications

You have built and run production services in a high‑growth, rapidly scaling environment. You can debug live issues and restore systems quickly. You have worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse, or are motivated and excited to work on present‑term AI safety. You have experience with Python or with modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go, and are able to quickly ramp up on Python. You understand the trade‑offs of capabilities and risks and navigate them to deploy novel products and features safely. You can critically assess risks of a new product or feature and devise innovative solutions to mitigate these risks without harming the product experience. You’re pragmatic. You know when to build a quick, good‑enough fix, and when to invest in a robust, lasting solution. You possess strong project management skills. You are self‑directed and can remove roadblocks to drive projects to completion with minimal guidance. You’ve deployed classifiers or machine learning models, or are excited to learn about modern ML infra. Our Tech Stack

Infrastructure built on Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka. While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills who understand the fundamental problems these tools solve and can quickly pick up new tools and frameworks. EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policy statement. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for U.S.–based candidates. Compensation Range

$210K - $325K

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