openai - Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems (London)

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer • Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage, and enable efficient human review of possible high severity harm • Work hand in hand with operators and investigators, designing and delivering systems that enable them to do their work faster, more accurately, and more safely. • Develop across the stack: UIs, services, pipelines, and anything else required to solve the problems we face. • Interact with partners across Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems, and Research • Contribute to the team’s technical strategy, especially for child safety related tools and systems • Report on impact in a data-driven fashion • Have a strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end—from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling • Are energized by working at the frontier of AI capabilities, integrating new models and APIs into practical systems • Have experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems • Are proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL • Take a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback • Favor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals • Have prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms • Bring intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations • Bonus: prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC