Software Engineer, Scaled AbuseActive$230K–$385K

The opportunity

The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL·E; and the APIs for GPT-5, embeddings, and fine-tuning.

What you'll do

  • Design and build systems for fraud detection and remediation while balancing: fraud loss, cost of implementation, and customer experience

  • Work closely with finance, security, product, research, and trust & safety: operations to holistically combat fraudulent and abusive actors on our system

  • Stay abreast of the latest techniques and tools to stay several steps ahead: of determined and well resourced adversaries

  • Utilize GPT-5 and future models to more effectively combat fraud and abuse

  • Have at least 5 years of software engineering experience in backend and data systems.

  • Have at least 2 years experience in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations

What they're looking for

  • Can dive into our codebase, intuit how it works, and be able to have a strong: intuition for suggestions that will lead us to a stronger engineering position.
  • A voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills. An: equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with others
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view: changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary
  • Experience in Machine Learning techniques is a plus, but not required
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