Software Engineer, Ads Integrity

About the Team

Were building the Ads Integrity team to ensure OpenAI can grow advertising in a way that is safe trusted and sustainablefor 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. Its 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 youll work on foundational integrity problems across advertiser identity ad content placement and landing-page safety. Youll 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 trustespecially 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 youre 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 adsnot 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.

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