Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary range
- USD $266,000 – $445,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 23 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 $266k to $445k 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.
Engineering work on the systems that set how teens and guardians use OpenAI's products, including ChatGPT, through the Youth Well-Being team in the Integrity pillar. The team builds safety, age-appropriate experiences and trust into the foundation of products across the company's surface area, aiming for family-facing experiences that are safe and compliant.
What you'd do
- Build teen and guardian features across OpenAI products, ChatGPT included.
- Build global age assurance systems that preserve privacy and fit regional compliance needs.
- Design and evolve identity infrastructure for secure, resilient user journeys at consumer scale.
- Help define safety and well-being metrics and improve user trust through technical interventions.
- Build guardian tools that cover both early and after-the-fact interventions.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, researchers, policy and legal staff.
What it asks for
- Prior work on products or infrastructure for users under 18, or real interest in digital safety or youth well-being (preferred)
- Experience with regulated systems such as COPPA, GDPR-K, UK OSA, or KOSA (preferred)
- Comfort owning complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end and adapting to shifting priorities
Terms in this role
- COPPA.
- The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a US law. A service aimed at children, or that knows a user is under 13, needs verifiable parental consent before collecting their personal data.
- Age assurance.
- Ways of checking or estimating a user's age, from asking them to facial age estimation and ID checks.
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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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