About the role

Software Engineer developing backend systems for Ads Integrity at OpenAI. Ensuring ads meet safety, trust, and compliance while collaborating with various teams.

Responsibilities

Design and build backend systems that ensure ads and advertisers meet safety, trust, and compliance standards.
Develop mechanisms to verify advertiser identity (“know your customer”) and assess advertiser risk.
Build and improve systems that evaluate ad content and landing pages for user safety and policy compliance.
Help determine where and how ads are shown, ensuring placements are appropriate, contextual, and aligned with user trust—especially in conversational AI surfaces like ChatGPT.
Partner cross-functionally with Core Ads, Integrity, and Personalization teams to balance growth goals with safety constraints.
Contribute to ML and LLM-adjacent systems that support automated decision-making, classification, and risk detection.
Shape technical direction, architecture, and best practices as the Ads Integrity organization scales.

Have at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines.
Comfortable operating as a generalist across distributed systems, data pipelines, and applied ML integrations.
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem.
Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
Care about AI Safety in production environments and have the expertise to build software systems that defend against abuse.
Motivated by working on ads—not just growth, but the responsibility that comes with it.
Experienced in trust, safety, integrity, fraud, abuse prevention, or risk-sensitive domains (ads experience is a strong plus).
Excited to work closely with product, policy, and other XFN partners to solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems.
Able to take ownership, mentor others, and help set technical standards on a growing team.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.