The opportunity
The Safety Systems org is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency.
What you'll do
Own the end-to-end development of internal tools that help improve the safety: of OpenAI’s models (with a focus on areas like mental health and other vulnerable-user protections)
Partner closely with Safety Systems researchers, engineers, and model policy: creators to understand workflows, pain points, and requirements—and translate them into durable product solutions
Build full-stack experiences to support core model policy workflows, such as: labeling and inspecting data, analyzing and reviewing failure cases, and surfacing insights for iteration
Optimize internal applications for usability, speed, and scale to increase: team velocity and reduce time-to-fix for safety issues
Transform successful AI assisted safety workflows into external facing safety: products, that empowers developers to build safer AI, uplift the industry standard for AI safety, and prepare the world for more capable AGI.
Have 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
What they're looking for
- Are proficient with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
- Are proficient with at least one backend language (we use Python)
- Have experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
- Have an interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
