Full Stack Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Intelligence & Investigations - San Francisco

About the Team

The Intelligence & Investigations team helps OpenAI understand and respond to the risks that can accompany increasingly capable AI. Our work has two central responsibilities: investigating potential high-severity misuse or harm involving our modelsed action.

About the Role

As an engineer on Intelligence & Investigations Engineering, you will build the systems that support both sides of this mission: giving OpenAI’s leadership superhuman situational awareness of important risks and developments, and accelerating expert investigators and analysts as they assess potential high-severity misuse or harm.

You will designed decisions when the stakes are high.

You will work directly with analystss decisions.

We’re looking for engineers who combine strong technical and analytical skills with product judgment and the ability to move between rapid prototyping and reliable production systems. You should be comfortable working with ambiguous problems, complex data, and evolving AI capabilities—and excited to build tools that expand what human experts can understand and accomplish.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Build intelligence systems that monitor and characterize emerging risks, synthesize internal and external signals, and give OpenAI leadership a timely, decision-ready view of what matters
• Develop investigative tools that help analysts, investigators, and subject matter experts assess potential high-severity misuse or harm with greater speed, depth, and consistency
• Own technical solutions end to end, from identifying user needs and prototyping new capabilities to deploying, maintaining, and improving production systems
• Apply OpenAI’s models to research and investigative workflows, including lead generation, triage, synthesis, and analysis across large, complex datasets
• Design effective interfaces and workflows that help expert users explore evidenceed decisions
• Shape the team’s technical and product direction as model capabilities, risk landscapes, and investigative needs evolve
• Collaborate closely with analysts and investigators, as well as partners across Applied, Safety Systems, Research, User Operations, and Strategy

You might thrive in this role if you have / are:

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software, ideally for intelligence, investigations, security, research, or other complex analytical workflows.
• A track record of owning products or systems end to end and translating ambiguous, high-stakes problems into useful tools.
• Strong programming and data skills, including experience working with Python, SQL, and large or unstructured datasets.
• Sound product and technical judgment, with the ability to partner closely with expert users and work effectively across functions.
• Excitement about using increasingly capable AI systems to expand human situational awareness and accelerate expert investigation.

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 an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$266K – $385K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• 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.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.