Base Salary
$293k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability.
- Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments.
- Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.
- Own the availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic.
- Lead projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration while raising engineering standards.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles.
- Track record designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals, including experience leading technically complex projects from ambiguous ideas to production.
- Proficiency in one or more general-purpose backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
- Experience with reliable and scalable systems, distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, observability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Product judgment and developer empathy, including the ability to turn complex model or infrastructure capabilities into clear, intuitive APIs.
- Clear communication and collaborative work with researchers, product managers, designers, infrastructure engineers, and customers.
- Experience with observability, abuse prevention, trust and safety, identity, security, privacy, compliance, or risk systems is preferred.
- Interest in helping frontier AI reach more developers and businesses responsibly.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.