# Fullstack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: San Francisco · London, UK
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Full-stack
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $266K–385K
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Skills: React, JavaScript, Python, Kubernetes, Docker
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/ac442f1f-c0d2-4608-a155-bfc89190e01c

## Description

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 Fullstack 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.



*Candidates should understand this role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.


In this role, you will:

 - 4+ years of experience as a software engineer

 - 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
   

You might thrive in this role if you:

 - Have a strong software engineering foundation and en

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