Software Engineer, AI Safety
About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental
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Software Engineer, AI Safety at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental
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- Architect, build, and maintain anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure designed to protect us and end users from unwanted behavior.
- Work closely with our 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.
- You have built and run production services in a high growth, rapidly scaling environment.
- You can debug live issues and restore systems quickly.
- You have worked on content safety, fraud, or abuse, or are motivated and excited to work on present-day (“now-term”) AI safety.
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