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Software Engineer, Safety Engineering

AI summary of the role

OpenAI's Safety Engineering team is hiring a full-stack software engineer to build internal tools that improve the safety and reliability of OpenAI's models, with a focus on sensitive areas like mental health and vulnerable-user protections.

What you’ll do

  • Own end-to-end development of internal tools for model safety, focusing on mental health and vulnerable-user protections
  • Partner with Safety Systems researchers, engineers, and policy creators to translate workflows into product solutions
  • Build full-stack experiences for labeling, inspecting, analyzing, and reviewing failure cases
  • Optimize internal applications for usability, speed, and scale to increase team velocity

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
  • Proficient with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
  • Proficient with at least one backend language (Python preferred)
  • Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL

Technologies

JavaScript · React · Python · Postgres · MySQL · full-stack · internal tools · AI safety · model policy

About OpenAI

Builds frontier AI models (GPT series) and ships them as ChatGPT consumer/enterprise products plus a developer API for the broader AI ecosystem.

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