AI Safety Tools & Evaluation Engineer

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 347,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Meal benefits

Learning stipend

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer to build tools and infrastructure that support cybersecurity research, frontier-risk evaluations, and red teaming in San Francisco. You will partner with researchers and engineers to translate evolving questions into practical software, from early prototypes to mission-critical systems.

Projects include backend services, evaluation infrastructure, data pipelines, and internal apps for running tests and reviewing results.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proficient in a general-purpose language and quick to learn new tools.
• Experience in backend, full-stack, infrastructure or data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software to support cybersecurity research, frontier-risk evaluations, and red teaming.
• Develop tools and workflows to run evaluations, inspect results, and investigate failures.
• Build services, APIs, data pipelines, and interfaces to help researchers work efficiently.
• Turn experimental workflows into reusable, well-tested, and documented systems.
• Own projects from problem understanding through deployment and operation.
• Improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and usability.

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Software Engineer to build tools and infrastructure that support cybersecurity research, frontier-risk evaluations, and red teaming in San Francisco. You will partner with researchers and engineers to translate evolving questions into practical software, from early prototypes to mission-critical systems.

Projects include backend services, evaluation infrastructure, data pipelines, and internal apps for running tests and reviewing results.