Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations

OpenAI

Location
San Francisco
Salary range
USD $266,000 – $445,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Engineering
Posted
28 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.

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Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ years · posts $266k to $445k base at a frontier lab · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

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

Software engineering for integrity infrastructure on OpenAI's platforms, with the Applied Foundations team defending against financial abuse, scaled attacks and other misuse that undermine user experience or operational stability. The team builds the core building blocks and infrastructure for detecting and preventing abuse.

What you'd do

  • Develop and enhance systems that detect and prevent financial fraud, botting and scripting.
  • Design solutions that blunt adversarial attacks while keeping the user experience intact, alongside cross-functional partners.
  • Work with the wider engineering team to design and implement abuse detection and prevention systems.
  • Help respond to live incidents on the platform.
  • Build new tooling and infrastructure aimed at the underlying causes of abuse.

What it asks for

  • Three or more years of hands-on professional software engineering work.
  • Track record of running backend services and data pipelines in production.
  • Ability to build software systems that defend against abuse, with an interest in AI safety in production.
  • Strong technical skills and ability to pick up new tools and frameworks quickly.
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres and Kafka (preferred, not required).

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About OpenAI

AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2015

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AI research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models.

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