engineering
Posted Jan 15Fullstack Engineer, Safety Engineering
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- About the Team The Safety Systems org https://openai.com/safety/safety-systems is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering a culture of trust and transparency.
- Our work sits at the intersection of product engineering, data, and AI, and directly shapes how millions of people experience OpenAI’s technology.
- experience at tech and product-driven companies - Are proficient with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies - Are proficient with at least one backend language (we use Python) - Have
- experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL - Have an interest in AI/ML (direct
- experience not required) - Are excited to partner closely with researchers and policy writers to ship tools that directly improve the safety of OpenAI’s models About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Experience
- You might thrive in this role if you: - Have 5+ years of relevant engineering
Additional details
- The Safety Engineering team builds the platforms and tools that make OpenAI’s models safe to use in the real world.
- We partner closely with researchers, product teams, and policy to turn safety ideas into reliable, scalable systems: measuring risk, enforcing safeguards, and continuously improving how models behave in production.
- About the Role We’re looking for a self-starter engineer who loves building products in an iterative, fast-moving environment—especially internal tools that unlock real-world impact.
- In this role, you’ll build full-stack tooling for our Safety Systems teams that directly improves the safety and reliability of OpenAI’s models, including in sensitive areas like mental health and other vulnerable-user protections.
- Your work will increase the team’s velocity in identifying and fixing safety issues and help tighten the feedback loop between policy, data, and the model training cycle. In this role,