Founding Engineer, AI Safety & Risk Platform

Safer Ai; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

50% transportation to workplace

Productivity expenditures up to €2k

Office space

Job summary

SaferAI is hiring a Founding Engineer for its Evaluations team. This pivotal role focuses on shaping risk management for frontier AI by building robust cloud infrastructure and driving model evaluation work.

You will contribute to security‑minded platform development, potentially extending Inspect AI and integrating benchmarking, while coordinating with remote, international teams. A strong emphasis on data protection and scalable systems is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
• Experience delivering projects in fast-paced and evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain cloud infrastructure for model evaluations with strong cybersecurity practices.
• Drive the team’s model evaluation and mitigations work, including related tooling and demonstrations.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Helm

Karpenter

Terraform

Pulumi

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL (RLS)

Security basics

Zero-trust

IAM

Datadog

Cognito

Tailscale

Tools

AWS

EKS

Job description

SaferAI is hiring a Founding Engineer for its Evaluations team. This pivotal role focuses on shaping risk management for frontier AI by building robust cloud infrastructure and driving model evaluation work.

You will contribute to security‑minded platform development, potentially extending Inspect AI and integrating benchmarking, while coordinating with remote, international teams. A strong emphasis on data protection and scalable systems is required.