mid Software Engineer ic · Posted Nov 22, 2024
$230,000 – $385,000
USD per year

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, Compliance, OpenAI. Compensation is listed at $230,000–$385,000 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Department
Applied AI
Posted
Nov 22, 2024
AI Summary
Build identity, age assurance, and guardian systems for youth-facing AI products at scale. Requires hands-on experience with identity platforms, auth/authz systems, or user verification at scale, plus familiarity with regulatory frameworks like COPPA and GDPR-K. This is a 0→1 opportunity architecting safety infrastructure for families using generative AI.

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About the Team

The Youth Well-Being product team is part of the Integrity pillar at OpenAI, responsible for ensuring that our state-of-the-art AI technologies are deployed in safe, age-appropriate, and beneficial ways—especially for youth and families.

We work across OpenAI’s entire product surface area, from ChatGPT to future-facing tools, to architect safety and trust into the foundation of our systems. Our mission: empower families while meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ethical responsibility.

This work is core to OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Safety, especially for the most vulnerable users, is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build the foundational systems that power family- and youth-facing experiences at scale. You’ll help define how teens and guardians engage with OpenAI products—ensuring those experiences are safe, compliant, and empowering.

You’ll operate across a broad technical surface: building identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools that support both proactive and reactive interventions. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, designers, user researchers, and policy experts.

This is a high-impact, 0→1 opportunity to set the standard for how families interact with generative AI.

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