Software Engineer, API Safety at OpenAI
- Company: OpenAI
- Location: Remote / San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $266K – $445K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Technologies: OpenAI
About the role
About the Team OpenAI'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 services for people around the world. API Safety's goal is to ensure safe deployment of frontier models in the API. We design APIs and systems that help developers share usage context, understand safety events, and apply safeguards tailored to the risk profile of the applications they are building. This work is critical to our frontier model launches and partners closely with teams across API, Integrity, and Safety Research. About the Role We're looking for product-minded software engineers to join a team that is addressing emerging risks at the frontier of model development while building novel solutions for real-world AI deployment.…
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