Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity

OpenAI; City Of London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in London is seeking a Protection Scientist Engineer to design and build systems that proactively identify and enforce against abuse across our products. The role involves on-call responsibilities and close collaboration with product, policy, and engineering teams to understand and mitigate risks.

You will scope monitoring requirements for new launches, sustain monitoring for existing products, and prototype scalable defense systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical analysis and detection experience using SQL and Python.
• Experience in trust and safety and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with data engineering and production pipelines.
• Familiarity with ML principles and production-ready code.

Responsibilities

• Scope and implement abuse monitoring requirements for new product launches.
• Improve monitoring operations for existing products and automate subtasks.
• Prototype production systems for detection, review, and enforcement of abuse.
• Collaborate with Product, Policy, Ops, Investigative and Engineering teams to address risks.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Investigation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field

Job description

About the Role

Protection Science Engineering is an interdisciplinary role mixing data science, machine learning, investigation, and policy/protocol development. As a Protection Scientist Engineer within Integrity and Investigations, you will be responsible for designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce on abuse on OpenAI’s products. This includes ensuring we have robust abuse monitoring in place for new products, sustaining monitoring for existing products, and prototyping and incubating systems of defense against our highest risk harms. You will also respond to and investigate critical escalations, especially those that are not caught by our existing safety systems. This will require expert understanding of our products and data, and involves working cross‑functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams.

This role is based in our London office and includes participation in an on‑call rotation that will involve resolving urgent escalations outside of normal work hours. Some investigations may involve sensitive content, including sexual, violent, or otherwise‑disturbing material.

In this role, you will:

• Scope and implement abuse monitoring requirements for new product launches.

• Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products, including developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks.

• Prototype and mature into production systems of detection, review, and enforcement of abuse for major harms.

• Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have at least 4 years of experience doing technical analysis and detection, especially using SQL and Python.
• Have experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams. An investigative mindset is key.
• Have experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and with machine learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code.
• Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.

Equal Opportunity & Legal Disclosure

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we 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.

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 US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.