Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems

Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.

Builds the engineering tooling that detects, triages, and supports human review of high-severity child safety harm across OpenAI's products. The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems to detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse, partnering closely with the Child Safety team.

• Child sexual abuse material

What you'd do

• Build and maintain systems that flag and sort likely severe harm for review.
• Enable efficient human review so operators and investigators work faster, more accurately, and more safely.
• Develop across the stack, including UIs, services, and data pipelines, for child safety tools.
• Integrate new AI models and APIs into practical detection and investigation systems.
• Contribute to the team's technical strategy for child safety tools and systems.
• Report on impact in a data-driven way.

What it asks for

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Track record running large-scale data pipelines or search and retrieval systems.
• Familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL.
• Prior experience engineering for high-severity harms (preferred).
• Understanding of child safety handling issues, such as quarantined material and NCMEC reporting (preferred).

Worth knowing

• Exposure to sensitive and egregious content.

Terms in this role

NCMEC.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a US nonprofit. It runs the CyberTipline, where US-based online services must report apparent child sexual abuse material they find.

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