Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Identity management","Auth","Privacy","Security","Regulatory compliance"]

Senior Software Engineer to architect and build foundational safety-focused systems powering youth- and family-facing experiences across OpenAI products. You’ll implement identity primitives, age-assurance pipelines, and guardian tools, collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, policy experts, and researchers, and help define metrics to improve safety, privacy, and user trust at scale.

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OpenAI
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Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer to architect and build foundational safety-focused systems powering youth- and family-facing experiences across OpenAI products. You’ll implement identity primitives, age-assurance pipelines, and guardian tools, collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, policy experts, and researchers, and help define metrics to improve safety, privacy, and user trust at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and implement teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT.
  • •Build global age assurance systems that are privacy-preserving and tailored to regional compliance needs.
  • •Design and evolve our identity infrastructure to support scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys at consumer internet scale.
  • •Help define safety and well-being metrics, and continuously improve user trust through technical interventions.
  • •Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, designers, user researchers, and policy experts.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Have built products or infrastructure for users under 18, or a strong interest in digital safety, youth well-being, or educational technology.
  • •Hands-on experience with identity platforms, auth/authz systems, or user verification at scale.
  • •Experience with systems that have regulatory complexity (e.g., COPPA, GDPR-K, UK OSA, KOSA) or navigating legal constraints in product development.
  • •Ability to own complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end, learn quickly, and adapt to fast-changing priorities in a cross-functional team.
  • •Commitment to building systems that are performant, inclusive, thoughtful, and ethical.
Experience:AISafetyYouth
Skills:Identity managementAuthPrivacySecurityRegulatory compliance
Tech Stack:Identity platformsAuthPrivacy-preservingAge assuranceGuardian tools

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·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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