The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-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.

About the Team

We’re building the Ads Integrity team to ensure OpenAI can grow advertising in a way that is safe, trusted, and sustainable—for users, advertisers, and the business. This team sits at the intersection of rapid revenue growth and responsible platform stewardship, designing systems that enable ads to scale without compromising user trust or safety. It’s critical to us that our Ads product be built in a way that corresponds to our Ads principles, and this team is key to that.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on Ads Integrity, you’ll work on foundational integrity problems across advertiser identity, ad content, placement, and landing-page safety. You’ll help define how ads responsibly show up in products like ChatGPT, partnering closely with Ads, Integrity, and Personalization teams to put the right constraints and protections in place as we move fast.

This is a high-impact role on a 0 → 1 team with significant ownership and influence over how ads evolve at OpenAI.

In this role, you will:

• 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.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 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.
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with or training ML/LLM-powered systems for classification, moderation, or risk assessment.

• Familiarity with advertiser ecosystems, ad marketplaces, or ad delivery pipelines.

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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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Compensation Range: $200K - $370K