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

About the Role

About the Team The Intelligence & Investigations Engineering team builds systems that detect, analyze, and disrupt abuse across OpenAI’s products. We partner closely with the Child Safety team and cross-functional groups to protect users while advancing OpenAI’s goal of developing AI that benefits everyone. About the Role As a Fullstack Engineer focused on child safety, you’ll build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that enable operators and investigators to work effectively and responsibly. You’ll adapt quickly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments to deliver well-crafted, reliable tooling for high-severity safety work. *Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content. In this role, you will: - 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 You might thrive in this role if you: - 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, dat

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.