Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 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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About the Role
You will architect and build the foundational systems behind family- and youth-facing experiences at scale. You'll build identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools that support proactive and reactive interventions, while collaborating with engineers, data scientists, designers, researchers, and policy experts. This is a high-impact 0→1 opportunity.
Requirements
- Experience building products or infrastructure for users under 18, or strong interest in digital safety, youth well-being, or educational technology
- Hands-on experience with identity platforms, auth/authz systems, or user verification at scale
- Experience with regulatory complexity (e.g., COPPA, GDPR-K, UK OSA, KOSA)
- Comfortable owning complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with policy, research, legal, and product
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT
- Build global, privacy-preserving age assurance systems tailored to regional compliance needs
- Design and evolve identity infrastructure for scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys
- Help define safety and well-being metrics and improve user trust through technical interventions
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 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