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Software Engineer, AI Safety

OpenAI· Safety Systems
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Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on building anti-abuse, content moderation, and safety-related infrastructure to protect users and ensure responsible AI deployment.

Responsibilities

  • 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

  • Built and run production services in a high growth, rapidly scaling environment.
  • Debug live issues and restore systems quickly.
  • Experience with Python or modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go, and ability to ramp up on Python.
  • Understanding of trade-offs of capabilities vs risks and ability to deploy novel products safely.
  • Strong project management skills; self-directed and able to remove roadblocks to drive projects to completion.
  • Experience deploying classifiers or machine learning models, or eagerness to learn modern ML infrastructure.
  • Motivation to work on present-day AI safety (content safety, fraud, abuse).

Skills

Required:Anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructureOperational incident responsePythonProduction service design and maintenanceRisk assessment and mitigationProject management
Nice to have:C++, Rust, or GoMachine learning / ML infra

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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