Software Engineer, API Safety

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Product judgment","Developer empathy","Communication","Collaboration","Technical leadership"]

Build and scale API safety controls for frontier model deployments. Design and implement dashboards and developer-facing APIs for safety observability, and develop reliable distributed systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new customers and environments. Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to mitigate emerging risks, ensure availability/latency at high API traffic volumes, and own technical projects from design through launch and iteration.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
3 days ago

Software Engineer, API Safety

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Job Summary

Build and scale API safety controls for frontier model deployments. Design and implement dashboards and developer-facing APIs for safety observability, and develop reliable distributed systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new customers and environments. Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to mitigate emerging risks, ensure availability/latency at high API traffic volumes, and own technical projects from design through launch and iteration.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability.
  • ā€¢Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments.
  • ā€¢Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks.
  • ā€¢Ensure availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic.
  • ā€¢Own technical projects from design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration while raising engineering standards.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢7+ years of professional experience (excluding internships) in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles.
  • ā€¢Track record designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed systems.
  • ā€¢Strong software engineering and systems fundamentals, including leading technically complex projects from ambiguous ideas to production.
  • ā€¢Proficiency in one or more general-purpose backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
  • ā€¢Experience with reliable, scalable systems and reasoning about distributed architecture, concurrency, latency, and observability; trust & safety/identity/security/privacy/compliance/risk experience is a plus.
Experience:7+ yearsAIFrontier modelsDeveloper tools
Skills:Product judgmentDeveloper empathyCommunicationCollaborationTechnical leadership
Tech Stack:PythonGoRustTypeScript

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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Glassdoor: 4.4
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