Software Engineer, AI Safety @ OpenAI
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About The Team
The Safety Systems team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on years of practical alignment work, the team addresses emerging safety issues and develops fundamental solutions for the safe deployment of advanced models and future AGI.
About The Role
At OpenAI, we're advancing artificial intelligence with a focus on creating a secure and reliable platform. As a Software Engineer, AI Safety, you will work with our engineering team to design and implement systems that detect and prevent abuse, promote user safety, and reduce risk.
In This Role, You Will
- Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure.
- Collaborate with engineers and researchers to apply AI techniques for safety and alignment.
- Diagnose and remediate active incidents and build tooling to address root causes of system failures.
You Might Thrive In This Role If
- You have experience running production services in a rapidly scaling environment.
- You can debug live issues and restore systems quickly.
- You have worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse, or are excited by AI safety challenges.
- You are proficient in Python or modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go.
- You understand trade-offs between capabilities and risks for safe product deployment.
- You possess strong project management skills and are self-directed.
- You have experience deploying classifiers or machine learning models, or are eager to learn about modern ML infrastructure.
Our Tech Stack
Our infrastructure utilizes Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, and Kafka. We value strong technical skills and the ability to quickly adapt to new tools and frameworks.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our mission is to safely deploy AI systems through cutting-edge products while valuing diverse perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing reasonable accommodations and maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment.
Key skills/competency
- AI safety
- Content moderation
- Anti-abuse
- Python
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- Incident remediation
- ML infrastructure
- Project management
How to Get Hired at OpenAI
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight AI safety and infrastructure projects.
- Showcase problem-solving skills: Emphasize debugging and production experience.
- Research OpenAI: Understand their mission and cutting-edge projects.
- Prepare technical examples: Align your past work with anti-abuse systems.