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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, AI Safety

Build and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure to ensure AI safety. Collaborate with engineers on AI alignment techniques, incident response, and risk mitigation using Python and cloud tools.

185k – 325k/yr
On-siteML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure designed to protect us and end users from unwanted behavior.
  • Work closely with other engineers and researchers to utilize both industry standard and novel AI techniques to measure, monitor and improve AI models’ alignment to human values.
  • Diagnose and remediate active incidents on the platform and build new tooling and infrastructure that address the root causes of system failure.

Requirements

  • Built and run production services in a high growth, rapidly scaling environment.
  • Can debug live issues and restore systems quickly.
  • Worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse, or motivated to work on present-day AI safety.
  • Experience with Python or modern languages such as C++, Rust, or Go, and able to quickly ramp up on Python.
  • Understand trade-offs of capabilities and risks to deploy novel products and features safely.
  • Critically assess risks of new products or features and devise innovative solutions to mitigate risks without harming product experience.
  • Pragmatic: know when to build quick fixes vs. robust solutions.
  • Strong project management skills: self-directed, drive projects to completion with minimal guidance.
  • Deployed classifiers or machine learning models, or excited to learn modern ML infra.

Tech Stack

  • Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure, Python, Postgres, Kafka.

Skills

PythonKubernetesTerraformAzurePostgresKafkaC++RustGoMachine Learning

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