Backend Engineer - Scaled Trust & Safety Infra

AI Startups UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in London seeks a senior software engineer to design and build scalable foundational systems for detecting and enforcing against harms on platforms. You will work with policy, trust & safety, legal, investigations, and data scientists to implement robust solutions using cutting-edge technologies.

Ideal candidates have strong backend/data system experience and at least 2 years in trust and safety analytics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in backend and data systems.
• 2+ years in trust and safety analysis, investigation or operations.
• Interest in harms analytics and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Ability to read and reason about complex codebases and propose engineering improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable foundational systems for detection, tracking, and enforcement of harms.
• Collaborate with policy, trust & safety, legal, investigations, and data scientists.
• Leverage OpenAI technologies to automate harm detection and reasoning.
• Stay ahead of adversaries by adopting latest techniques and tools.
• Learn from experts across technical and non-technical roles to improve systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data systems

Trust & safety

Investigation

Machine Learning (bonus)

Tools

Codebase exploration

Job description

OpenAI in London seeks a senior software engineer to design and build scalable foundational systems for detecting and enforcing against harms on platforms. You will work with policy, trust & safety, legal, investigations, and data scientists to implement robust solutions using cutting-edge technologies.

Ideal candidates have strong backend/data system experience and at least 2 years in trust and safety analytics.