About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Software Engineer, API Safety in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Aug 21, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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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. The day-to-day work ranges from solving production challenges to designing new product experiences and safeguards. The right candidate is comfortable balancing tradeoffs across developer experience, latency, reliability, and risk.