engineering
Posted Jun 8Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Applied team safely brings OpenAI's technology to the world. We released ChatGPT; Plugins; DALL
- E; and the APIs for GPT-5, embeddings, and fine-tuning.
- experience to help architect and build our next-generation anti-fraud systems.
- experience - Work closely with finance, security, product, research, and trust & safety operations to holistically combat fraudulent and abusive actors on our system - Stay abreast of the latest techniques and tools to stay several steps ahead of determined and well resourced adversaries - Utilize GPT-5 and future models to more effectively combat fraud and abuse YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU: - Have at least 5 years of software engineering
- experience in backend and data systems. - Have at least 2 years
- experience in fraud or abuse analysis, investigation, and/or operations - Can dive into our codebase, intuit how it works, and be able to have a strong intuition for suggestions that will lead us to a stronger engineering position. - A voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills.
- Experience in Machine Learning techniques is a plus, but not required Our tech stack Our infrastructure is built on Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka. While we value
- experience with these technologies, we are primarily looking for engineers with strong technical skills and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- We also operate inference infrastructure at scale.
- Our customers build fast-growing businesses around our APIs, which power product features that were never before possible.
- ChatGPT is a prime example of what is currently possible.
- We simultaneously ensure that our powerful tools are used responsibly.
- Safe deployment is more important to us than unfettered growth.
- The Fraud Engineering team works within our Applied Engineering organization identifying and responding to fraudsters on our platform.
- ABOUT THE ROLE The Scaled Abuse team protects OpenAI’s products and customers by detecting, preventing, and responding to fraudulent and abusive behavior at scale.
- We build and operate the backend and data systems that power real-time detection, investigation workflows, and enforcement — balancing strong protections with a great user experience as the platform grows.
- Our work sits at the intersection of engineering and abuse expertise: we partner closely with Trust & Safety, Security, and Product to understand emerging attack patterns, translate messy signals into clear system behavior, and continuously harden our defenses.
- The problems are dynamic and ambiguous by default, so we value engineers who can quickly dive into an unfamiliar codebase, develop strong intuition about how it works end-to-end, and propose pragmatic improvements that make the entire stack more resilient. IN THIS ROLE,