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Software Engineer, API Safety

About the TeamOpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The API Platform turns frontier research into reliable capabilities that developers use to build transformative products and se

Company

OpenAI

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-21T17:12:26.509+00:00

OpenAI is hiring a software engineer for its API Safety team in San Francisco, with hybrid work. The person will build APIs and dashboards for safety controls and customer observability, extend safeguards across high-volume API traffic, and work with safety research and integrity teams. The posting asks for at least seven years in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering; production API or distributed-systems experience; and proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript. Product judgment and trust-and-safety experience help.