Software Engineer, AI SafetyActive$185K–$325K

The opportunity

The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Learn more about OpenAI’s approach to safety.

What you'll do

  • Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation: infrastructure designed to protect us and end users from unwanted behavior.

  • Work closely with our other engineers and researchers to utilize both: industry standard and novel AI techniques to measure, monitor and improve AI models’ alignment to human values. .

  • Diagnose and remediate active incidents on the platform and build new tooling: and infrastructure that address the root causes of system failure.

  • You have built and run production services in a high growth, rapidly scaling environment.

  • You can debug live issues and restore systems quickly.

  • You have worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse, or are motivated and: excited to work on present-day (“now-term”) AI safety.

What they're looking for

  • You have experience with Python or with modern languages such as C++, Rust,: or Go, and are able to quickly ramp up on Python.
  • You understand the trade-offs of capabilities and risks and navigate them to: deploy novel products and features safely.
  • You can critically assess risks of a new product or feature and devise: innovative solutions to mitigate these risks without harming the product experience.
  • You’re pragmatic. You know when to build a quick, good-enough fix, and when: to invest in a robust, lasting solution.