Software Engineer Ads Integrity
OpenAI
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Job Description
About The Team
We’re building the Ads Integrity team to ensure OpenAI can grow advertising in a way that is safe, trusted, and sustainable—for users, advertisers, and the business. This team sits at the intersection of rapid revenue growth and responsible platform stewardship, designing systems that enable ads to scale without compromising user trust or safety.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer on Ads Integrity, you’ll work on foundational integrity problems across advertiser identity, ad content, placement, and landing-page safety. You’ll help define how ads responsibly show up in products like ChatGPT, partnering closely with Ads, Integrity, and Personalization teams to implement the right constraints and protections as we move fast. This is a high-impact role on a 0 → 1 team with significant ownership over how ads evolve at OpenAI.
In This Role, You Will
- Design and build backend systems ensuring ads meet safety and compliance standards.
- Develop verification mechanisms for advertiser identity and risk assessment.
- Improve systems evaluating ad content and landing page safety.
- Define ad placements aligned with user trust in conversational interfaces.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance growth with safety constraints.
- Contribute to ML and LLM-adjacent systems for automated decision-making and risk detection.
- Shape technical direction, architecture, and best practices as the team scales.
You Might Thrive In This Role If You
- Have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Are experienced with production backend services and data pipelines.
- Can operate as a generalist across distributed systems and applied ML integrations.
- Possess a humble attitude, self-direction, and ownership mentality.
- Care deeply about AI Safety and building abuse-resistant systems.
- Are motivated by ads growth with an emphasis on responsibility.
- Have experience in trust, safety, integrity, fraud, abuse prevention, or risk-sensitive domains.
Nice To Have
- Experience with ML/LLM-powered systems for classification or risk assessment.
- Familiarity with advertiser ecosystems, ad marketplaces, or ad delivery pipelines.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our mission is to deploy AI responsibly while valuing diverse perspectives and experiences.
Key skills/competency
- backend systems
- data pipelines
- ML integration
- AI safety
- risk assessment
- compliance
- trust
- ads integrity
- distributed systems
- cross-functional collaboration
How to Get Hired at OpenAI
- Customize your resume: Highlight software engineering and backend expertise.
- Showcase ad system experience: Emphasize integrity and risk assessment.
- Research OpenAI: Understand their mission and culture.
- Prepare technical answers: Focus on distributed systems and ML integrations.
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