Software Engineer, Safety Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $207,000 – $385,000 base
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 6 weeks 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: asks for 5+ years · 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.
Internal tooling for the Safety Engineering team, which builds the platforms that measure risk and enforce safeguards so OpenAI's models behave safely in production. The tools focus on model policy workflows, including mental health and other vulnerable-user protections, and aim to speed up how safety issues are found and fixed.
What you'd do
- Own end-to-end development of internal safety tools, with a focus on mental health and vulnerable-user protections
- Build full-stack interfaces for labeling and inspecting data, reviewing failure cases, and surfacing insights
- Make internal applications faster, easier to use, and able to handle more load so safety issues get fixed sooner
- Turn successful AI-assisted safety workflows into external-facing safety products for developers
What it asks for
- Five or more years of engineering work at tech and product-driven companies
- Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
- Proficiency with at least one backend language, Python preferred by the team
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
- Interest in AI/ML; direct experience not required (preferred)
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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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