System Software Engineer, Integrity

Overview

System Software Engineer, Integrity at OpenAI. Applied AI Engineering - San Francisco

About the Team

The Integrity team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our cutting-edge technology is not only revolutionary but also secure from adversarial threats. We strive to maintain the integrity of our platforms as they scale. The team defends against financial abuse, scaled attacks, and misuse that could undermine user experience or operational stability.

About the Role

At OpenAI, our mission is to advance AI in a way that is safe, reliable, and aligned with broad societal values. We are seeking a Software Engineer who will work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and security infrastructure. You will build, scale, and defend critical backend services : powering training infrastructure at scale and protecting the platform from misuse, adversarial behavior, and systemic abuse. Your work will ensure performance, reliability, and safety across our systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain systems and frameworks that enable effective identification and assessment of emergent risks (e.g., reasoning, instruction-following, or agentic behavior) supporting security and safety teams in catching issues before they lead to external incidents.
• Architect and build scalable, resilient backend systems and internal tooling to support a lean, high-efficiency operating model
• Proactively probe systems to uncover latent bugs and failure modes before they manifest in production

Qualifications

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is a powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including fair chance ordinances where applicable. Job duties may require access to secure information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation

$255K – $405K + Equity

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