Safety Engineer

ElevenLabs
United Kingdom, United States, Dublin, London, Warsaw, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Attention to detail"]

Experienced backend-focused AI Safety Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable guardrail and moderation infrastructure. You’ll bridge ML research and production systems, owning end-to-end safety architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and observability to ensure robust, scalable platform safeguards across multimodal content.

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ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
7 months ago

Safety Engineer

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Job Summary

Experienced backend-focused AI Safety Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable guardrail and moderation infrastructure. You’ll bridge ML research and production systems, owning end-to-end safety architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and observability to ensure robust, scalable platform safeguards across multimodal content.
Location: United Kingdom, United States, Dublin, London, Warsaw, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation, abuse detection and agents 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 our product suite.
  • •Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap on how the next generation of platform guardrails should be built for scale and precision.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning BudgetCo-workingRemote WorkTravel Allowance

Key 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 & 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.
Experience:6+ yearsAI safetySaaS
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationAttention to detail
Tech Stack:PythonAWSGCPDockerKubernetesCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaKafkaRedisReact

Company Brief

ElevenLabs
Develops advanced AI audio models and tools for realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, music generation, and conversational voice agents for creators and enterprises.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2022
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