{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"94b4e0922ed07e16f62200ce","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/94b4e0922ed07e16f62200ce","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/94b4e0922ed07e16f62200ce","title":"Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems","description":"Intelligence & Investigations - San Francisco and London, UK\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe 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.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work.\n\n*Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\n4+ years of experience as a software engineer\n\nPrototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm\n\nWork hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely.\n\nDevelop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face.\n\nInteract with partners across Product Policy Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research\n\nContribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems\n\nReport on impact in a data-driven fashion\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling\n\nAre energized by working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems\n\nHave experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems\n\nAre proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, data warehouses, and SQL\n\nTake a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback\n\nFavor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed\n\nAre comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals\n\nHave prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms\n\nBring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations\n\nBonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$266K – $385K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid 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)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.","company":"OpenAI","rawCompany":"openai","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-09-24T07:01:46.962Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.00","title":"Computer Occupations, All Other","slug":"computer-occupations-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems","description":"Intelligence & Investigations - San Francisco and London, UK\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe 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.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work.\n\n*Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\n4+ years of experience as a software engineer\n\nPrototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm\n\nWork hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely.\n\nDevelop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face.\n\nInteract with partners across Product Policy Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research\n\nContribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems\n\nReport on impact in a data-driven fashion\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you:\n\nHave a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling\n\nAre energized by working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems\n\nHave experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems\n\nAre proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, data warehouses, and SQL\n\nTake a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback\n\nFavor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed\n\nAre comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals\n\nHave prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms\n\nBring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations\n\nBonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. 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