Software Engineer, Ads Integrity

OpenAI

Software Engineer building integrity systems to ensure safe, trustworthy ads for OpenAI’s monetization products. Collaborating in a cross-functional team to enhance ad integrity.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $293,000 - $385,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on ads integrity, fraud detection, and risk management. Capable of integrating machine learning signals and human review into reliable production systems while ensuring high standards of privacy, security, and operational excellence.

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Large-Scale Distributed SystemsFraud DetectionRisk ManagementMachine Learning IntegrationOperational Excellence

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Hard Skills

Detection CapabilitiesDecisioning SystemsEnforcement WorkflowsData PipelinesLow-Latency ServicesHigh-Throughput ServicesRules and HeuristicsFeedback LoopsIntegrity MetricsAdversarial Systems

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaborative Problem SolvingTechnical Decision-Making

Tools & Technologies

Observability ToolsAuditability SystemsPrivacy and Security Reviews

Industry Keywords

Ads IntegrityTrust and SafetyAnti-AbuseFraudSecurity

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build real-time and offline systems that detect harmful, deceptive, fraudulent, or policy-violating ads, advertisers, creatives, and landing experiences.
Develop scalable risk-signal pipelines, rules and model-serving infrastructure, decision systems, and enforcement workflows across the ads lifecycle.
Build advertiser-verification, account-risk, abuse-prevention, and fraud-detection capabilities that raise the cost of adversarial behavior.
Create review and investigation tools that help operations and policy teams make fast, consistent, and explainable decisions.
Design feedback loops, labeling systems, and integrity metrics that improve detection quality while managing false positives and user impact.
Partner with Ads Delivery and Ads ML to integrate integrity checks into retrieval, ranking, auctions, pacing, and serving without compromising reliability or latency.
Engineer resilient systems that adapt to changing adversarial tactics and support safe experimentation and effective incident response.
Define the technical strategy and roadmap for ads integrity across OpenAI’s monetization stack.
Operate systems with high engineering rigor through testing, observability, auditability, privacy and security reviews, and strong operational practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally in ads integrity, trust and safety, anti-abuse, fraud, security, risk, or an adjacent domain.
Understand adversarial systems and have built detection, decisioning, enforcement, verification, or investigation capabilities.
Have combined rules, heuristics, machine-learning signals, human review, and feedback loops into dependable production systems.
Can reason about precision and recall, false positives, explainability, auditability, appeals, and the operational effects of automated enforcement.
Have built low-latency, high-throughput services or data pipelines with demanding reliability, correctness, privacy, and security requirements.
Are comfortable partnering with policy, operations, legal, safety, security, product, and machine-learning teams on ambiguous and sensitive problems.
Think holistically across threat models, architecture, data quality, observability, user impact, and advertiser trust.
Can define technical direction in an ambiguous 0→1 environment and independently drive complex work across teams.
Communicate clearly and make technical decisions grounded in safety, fairness, system health, and long-term ecosystem quality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.