Software Engineer, API Safety
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
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 OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability, and develop scalable systems that extend safety capabilities to new use cases and customers. You will partner with Safety Research and Integrity on safeguards and own projects from design through launch.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering, excluding internships
- Track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
- Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals
- Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Experience with distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, observability
- Product judgment and developer empathy
- Clear communication and collaboration
- Experience with observability, abuse prevention, trust and safety, identity, security, privacy, compliance, or risk systems is a strong plus
Responsibilities
- Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability
- Develop scalable systems that extend safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments
- Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks
- Own availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic
- Own projects from technical design through launch and iteration while raising engineering standards
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- 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 birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees; up to 15 days for non-exempt
- 13+ paid company holidays and 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
