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OpenAI

Software Engineer, API Safety

San Francisco (Remote)$293k–$385kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join OpenAI's API Safety team to design and build systems that safeguard frontier AI models in production. You'll create safety dashboards, APIs, and scalable infrastructure that help developers deploy AI responsibly while balancing security, performance, and user experience.

What you'll do

  • Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability
  • Develop scalable systems that extend safety capabilities to new use cases and deployment environments
  • Partner with Safety Research and Integrity teams to build and deploy safeguards against emerging risks
  • Ensure availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic
  • Own projects from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration
  • Raise team engineering standards and drive technical excellence

What they're looking for

  • Backend engineering (Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript)
  • Distributed systems design and scalability
  • API design and developer experience
  • Production systems reliability and observability
  • Concurrency and latency optimization
  • Safety, abuse prevention, or trust and safety systems
  • Systems thinking and architectural tradeoffs
  • Cross-functional collaboration and communication
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe a time you designed a production API; how did you balance developer experience with safety or reliability concerns?
  • Walk us through how you would approach designing a system to monitor and mitigate misuse of a high-throughput API.
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