Software Engineer, AI Safety

3 hours agoSalary: 207K - 385KSan Francisco, USABackendJobs by OpenAI

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About the Role

You will design and implement systems that detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk across the platform. You will architect anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure, work with engineers and researchers on measuring and improving model alignment, and diagnose and remediate live incidents while building tooling that addresses root causes.

Requirements

  • Built and run production services in a high-growth, rapidly scaling environment
  • Ability to debug live issues and restore systems quickly
  • Experience in content safety, fraud, or abuse, or motivation for AI safety
  • Experience with Python or C++, Rust, or Go, and ability to ramp up on Python
  • Ability to assess risks of new products and devise mitigations
  • Strong project management skills and self-direction
  • Deployed classifiers or ML models, or excited to learn ML infra

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure
  • Work with engineers and researchers to measure, monitor, and improve AI models' alignment to human values
  • Diagnose and remediate active incidents and build tooling addressing root causes of system failure

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) 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)
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and paid company office closures
  • Paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
  • Equity
  • Performance-related bonus