Senior API Safety Engineer - Observability & Safeguards

OpenAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's API Platform team is looking for product-minded software engineers to join a team tackling emerging risks at the frontier of model development while building novel safety solutions for real-world AI deployment. The day-to-day work ranges from solving production challenges to designing new product experiences and safeguards.

The right candidate is comfortable balancing tradeoffs across developer experience, latency, reliability, and risk.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles.
• A track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability.
• Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments.
• Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.
• Be responsible for the availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic.
• Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration, while raising the team’s engineering standards

Job description

OpenAI's API Platform team is looking for product-minded software engineers to join a team tackling emerging risks at the frontier of model development while building novel safety solutions for real-world AI deployment. The day-to-day work ranges from solving production challenges to designing new product experiences and safeguards.

The right candidate is comfortable balancing tradeoffs across developer experience, latency, reliability, and risk.