Fullstack Engineer: Child Safety Tools & Systems

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with employer,

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer for Child Safety Tools & Systems in San Francisco and London. You will build AI-powered, data-intensive applications to assist operators and investigators in handling high-severity safety work.

Role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of systems, from infrastructure to frontend tooling, with exposure to sensitive content. Strong preference for Python/TypeScript, data pipelines, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 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.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

TypeScript

Spark

Kafka

Flink

SQL

Data pipelines

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Flink

SQL

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer for Child Safety Tools & Systems in San Francisco and London. You will build AI-powered, data-intensive applications to assist operators and investigators in handling high-severity safety work.

Role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of systems, from infrastructure to frontend tooling, with exposure to sensitive content. Strong preference for Python/TypeScript, data pipelines, and scalable architectures.