2 months ago
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 builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.