Software Engineer, AI Safety
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $207,000 – $385,000 base
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 19 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $240k to $340k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: posts $207k to $385k base at a frontier lab · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from OpenAI's posting.
Software engineering for trust and safety on OpenAI's platform, building systems that detect and prevent abuse, protect end users and reduce risk across products. The work sits in the Safety Systems team, which addresses emerging safety issues so advanced models can be deployed safely.
What you'd do
- Build and keep up the systems that stop abuse and moderate content for the company and its end users.
- Work with engineers and researchers on AI techniques to measure, monitor and improve model alignment to human values.
- Handle live platform incidents and fix them at the source.
- Develop internal tools and infrastructure that target what causes systems to fail.
- Assess risks of new products and features and design mitigations that keep the product experience intact.
What it asks for
- Track record of operating live production services at companies growing quickly.
- Experience with Python, or with C++, Rust or Go, and ability to ramp up on Python quickly.
- Experience with content safety, fraud or abuse work, or strong motivation for present-day AI safety.
- Experience deploying classifiers or machine learning models (preferred)
- Familiarity with modern ML infrastructure (preferred)
- Strong project management and self-directed execution with minimal guidance.
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About OpenAI

The employer
About OpenAI
AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2015
AI research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models.
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