Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations

OpenAI; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI's Applied Foundations team is seeking a software engineer to help defend our platform against abuse, fraud, and misuse while maintaining user trust.

You'll work with the engineering organization to design and implement backend systems, production data pipelines, and tooling to detect adversarial behavior and prevent incidents.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and a mindful approach to safety in production.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building production backend services and data pipelines.
• Interest in AI safety and building defenses in production.
• Self-directed, collaborative, and willing to own problems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance systems to detect and prevent abuse across platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to protect users without harming experience.
• Assist with active incidents and build new tooling and infrastructure.
• Create tooling to accelerate workflows only when off-the-shelf solutions fall short.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend services

Data pipelines

Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

Python

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

About the Team

The Applied Foundations team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our cutting-edge technology is not only revolutionary but also secure from a myriad of adversarial threats. We strive to maintain the integrity of our platforms as they scale.

The Applied Foundations team is at the front lines of defending against financial abuse, scaled attacks, and other forms of misuse that could undermine the user experience or harm our operational stability. Integrity Foundations provides the core building blocks and infrastructure for this work.

About the Role

At OpenAI, our mission is to advance AI in a way that is safe, reliable, and aligned with broad societal values. The applied foundations role is crucial for maintaining the trustworthiness of our platforms. You will be pivotal in developing robust defenses against a spectrum of adversarial behaviors that threaten our ecosystem.

In this role, you'll work with our entire engineering team to design and implement systems that detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk across our platform. You'll be at the forefront of our efforts to ensure that the immense potential of AI is harnessed in a responsible and sustainable manner.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and enhance systems to detect and prevent various forms of abuse including financial fraud, botting, and scripting.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience.

• Assist with response to active incidents on the platform and build new tooling and infrastructure that address the fundamental problems.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.

• Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

• Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem

• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done.

• Care about AI Safety in production environments and have the expertise to build software systems that defend against abuse.

• Build tools to accelerate your own workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions would not do.

Our tech stack

• Our infrastructure is built on Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka. While we value experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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