Drimva

OpenAI

Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity

$198K–$425K

San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted May 5, 2026

Location
San Francisco
New York City

About the job

Designs and operates systems that detect harmful activity and coordinate protections across OpenAI products and launches.

What you'll do

  • Set protection strategy and lead cross-functional delivery for a harm area or product launch.
  • Build, maintain, and evaluate production detection systems, including signals, classifiers, and pipelines.
  • Investigate emerging harms, measure system effectiveness, and improve policies, reviews, interventions, and monitoring.

What they ask for

  • Deep expertise in at least one relevant harm domain, such as integrity, trust and safety, security, or investigations.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience writing reliable, efficient production code for detection and data processing.
  • Ability to apply quantitative analysis and machine-learning methods to measure risks and evaluate system effectiveness.
  • Experience setting strategy and delivering complex, cross-functional technical projects.

Nice to have

  • Additional machine-learning or software-engineering experience.
  • Additional data-science or measurement background.

Pay

$198K – $425K USD base salary

Tools

SQL, Python, machine learning, language models

AI focus

Use language models, agents, and other automation to scale detection, analytical, investigative, and operational work, with evaluation and appropriate human oversight.

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First seen Oct 8, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)