Fullstack Engineer, Child Safety Tools and Systems

OpenAI

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $220,000 - $320,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

KafkaPythonSparkSQLTypeScript

About the role

Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm
Work hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely
Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required
Interact with partners across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research
Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems
Report on impact in a data-driven fashion
Adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver reliable tooling for high-severity safety work

Strong software engineering foundation and experience owning systems end-to-end
Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
Familiarity with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL
Product-minded approach; design with user workflows in mind and iterate quickly
Comfortable shipping pragmatic solutions in low-support environments and navigating ambiguity
Experience working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating models and APIs
Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms
Intuition for operations and investigative team workflows and curiosity about solving complex investigations
Comfortable with exposure to sensitive and egregious content
Ability to work from OpenAI's US office three days per week (role based in San Francisco, CA)
Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC