Child Safety Enforcement Specialist
San Francisco · Singapore · Dublin · US - Remote · London · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco · Singapore · Dublin · US - Remote · London
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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About the role
- The Child Safety Enforcement Specialist independently leads defined child safety investigations and projects from triage through documented outcome.
- This role involves sensitive content review, the application of policy to abuse signals, and the recommendation of evidence-based mitigations.
- The position requires participation in a coverage rotation that includes weekends.
Responsibilities
- Independently review and investigate child safety content and behavior, including CSAM and grooming signals.
- Apply policy consistently and document evidence and rationale.
- Lead well-defined high-risk escalations end to end.
- Anticipate blockers, communicate progress, and make or recommend enforcement decisions.
- Identify potential mandatory-reporting cases and prepare NCMEC CyberTip reports.
- Analyze case and detection data to identify patterns, quality gaps, and emerging abuse trends.
- Propose data-informed improvements to investigative workflows and tooling.
- Collaborate with Legal, Policy, Product, Engineering, and operations partners to implement mitigations.
Requirements
- Experience investigating child safety abuse or comparable Trust & Safety issues.
- Sound judgment in sensitive content review and enforcement.
- Ability to independently own defined investigative projects and deliver documented outcomes.
- Working knowledge of NCMEC CyberTip reporting workflows.
- Ability to identify patterns in case or detection data and recommend practical mitigations.
- Ability to communicate progress and findings to cross-functional partners.
Preferred qualifications
- SQL experience
- Statistics experience
- Technical collaboration experience
Skills
- SQL
- Statistics
- NCMEC CyberTip Reporting
