OpenAI · 6 hours ago
Fullstack Engineer, Safety Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The role involves developing internal tools to enhance the safety and reliability of OpenAI’s models, focusing on improving processes related to mental health and vulnerable-user protections.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end development of internal tools that help improve the safety of OpenAI’s models (with a focus on areas like mental health and other vulnerable-user protections)
Partner closely with Safety Systems researchers, engineers, and model policy creators to understand workflows, pain points, and requirements—and translate them into durable product solutions
Build full-stack experiences to support core model policy workflows, such as labeling and inspecting data, analyzing and reviewing failure cases, and surfacing insights for iteration
Optimize internal applications for usability, speed, and scale to increase team velocity and reduce time-to-fix for safety issues
Transform successful AI assisted safety workflows into external facing safety products, that empowers developers to build safer AI, uplift the industry standard for AI safety, and prepare the world for more capable AGI
Qualification
Required
5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
Proficient with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
Proficient with at least one backend language (we use Python)
Experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)
Excited to partner closely with researchers and policy writers to ship tools that directly improve the safety of OpenAI's models
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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2022 (18)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-14
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