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Posted Oct 8, 2025Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity
at openai
London, United KingdomOn-site
Requirements
- About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- About the Role Protection Science Engineering is an interdisciplinary role mixing data science, machine learning, investigation, and policy/protocol development.
- This will require expert understanding of our products and data, and involves working cross-functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams.
- experience doing technical analysis and detection, especially using SQL and Python. - Have
- experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams. An investigative mindset is key. - Have
- experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and with machine learning principles and execution.
- Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code. - Have
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.
- This enables our partner teams to develop data-backed product policies and build scaled safety mitigations.
- Precisely understanding abuse allows us to safely enable users to build useful things with our products.
- As a Protection Scientist Engineer within Integrity and Investigations, you will be responsible for designing and building systems to proactively identify and enforce on abuse on OpenAI’s products.
- This includes ensuring we have robust abuse monitoring in place for new products, sustaining monitoring for existing products, and prototyping and incubating systems of defense against our highest risk harms.
- You will also respond to and investigate critical escalations, especially those that are not caught by our existing safety systems.
- This role is based in our London office and includes participation in an on-call rotation that will involve resolving urgent escalations outside of normal work hours.
- Some investigations may involve sensitive content, including sexual, violent, or otherwise-disturbing material. In this role,
- requirements for new product launches. - Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products, including developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks. - Prototype and mature into production systems of detection, review, and enforcement of abuse for major harms. - Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling.
- You might thrive in this role if you: - Have at least 4 years of