AI Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation, abuse detection, and agent guardrails, deploying AI/ML models into production systems
• Architect robust APIs, data pipelines, and service architectures supporting real-time and batch moderation workflows
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems; establish SLIs, SLOs, and performance benchmarks
• Partner with ML engineers to translate research models into production-ready systems and integrate them across the product suite
• Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap for next-generation platform guardrails built for scale and precision

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience building production systems at scale
• Strong production backend experience: distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and Python expertise (asynchronous Python, backend frameworks)
• Infrastructure and DevOps proficiency: cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines
• Observability mindset with experience in monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and building observable systems
• Track record of taking products or systems from 0→1 with measurable impact, including deploying or working alongside ML/AI systems in production

Preferred Qualifications

• Trust & Safety, Content Moderation, or Integrity engineering experience
• MLOps experience: deployment, monitoring, and versioning of ML models
• Experience with SQL, data analysis tools, real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Redis), or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with React or modern frontend frameworks

About the Company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. Launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model, the company now serves millions of users and thousands of businesses including Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, and Sequoia, ElevenLabs has raised $781M at an $11B valuation and operates across three platforms: ElevenAgents for intelligent customer experiences, ElevenCreative for multimodal content generation, and ElevenAPI for developer access to leading AI audio models.