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Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

OpenAI· Applied AI
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San Francisco$266k - $385kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, building data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure to support operators and investigators in high-severity safety work.

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 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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, familiar with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
  • Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
  • Strong software engineering foundation; end-to-end ownership of systems from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity in evolving problems; comfortable in high-severity harms contexts
  • Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges and secure handling of quarantined content

Skills

Required:Software engineeringPythonTypeScriptData pipelinesSystems thinking / end-to-end ownership
Nice to have:Spark, Kafka, FlinkSQL / data warehousing

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 throughout the year
  • 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 as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits (e.g., charitable donation matching, wellness stipends)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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