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

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 Full-stack 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. Please note that this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content. Responsibilities 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 Requirements 7+ years of experience as a software engineer Strong software engineering foundation and enjoy owning systems end-to-end,from infrastructure and data ingestion to frontend tooling Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript, and familiar with tools like Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses, and SQL Take a product-minded approach, design with user workflows in mind, and iterate quickly based on feedback Favor pragmatic solutions and can ship in hacky, low-support environments when needed Comfortable navigating ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces with evolving goals Prior experience working on engineering for high-severity harms Intuition for the pain points and workflows of operations and investigative teams, and curiosity about solving complex investigations Nice to Have Prior knowledge of child-safety-specific challenges such as secure handling of quarantined content and reporting to NCMEC Salary $266K - $445K Job Data by YubHub .