Safety Engineer (Data)

ElevenLabs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary learning stipend

Annual company offsite

Co-working stipend

Social travel stipend

Job summary

ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company based in London, is seeking a Data Scientist to own datasets and evaluation workflows for AI safety. You’ll turn real-world product data into reliable datasets for training and evaluating models, and build scalable data processes with engineers.

You’ll collaborate with safety researchers, policy specialists, and engineers to translate complex safety guidelines into practical data systems, labelling, and quality standards that scale across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Data Scientist or similar with real-world datasets and ML models.
• Strong grasp of building high-quality datasets: collection, cleaning, sampling, labeling, QC, evaluation.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL for analysis and practical data workflows.
• Excellent critical thinking, judgment, and ability to translate guidelines into scalable decisions.
• Autonomous, clear communicator able to work across policy, engineering and research.

Responsibilities

• Own safety datasets end-to-end: collection, cleaning, labeling, quality control, versioning and readiness for training/evaluation.
• Translate safety policy into labeling/evaluation criteria in collaboration with policy specialists.
• Design and manage labeling processes, onboarding external contributors to high quality standards.
• Build evaluation workflows for production models using real-world data to track performance.
• Develop lightweight Python/SQL pipelines and tooling with ML engineers to define training-ready data.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML datasets

Data labeling

Data pipelines

Analytical thinking

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

About ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.

We launched in January 2023 with the first human‑like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast‑growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We’ve raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $22B - multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:

• ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.

• ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.

• ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.

Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex‑founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.

How we work

• High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.

• Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.

• AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.

• Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.

• Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.

What we offer

• Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

• Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.

• Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.

• Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.

• Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.

• Co‑working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co‑working stipend.

About the role

We’re looking for a Data Scientist to take ownership of the datasets and evaluation workflows that underpin our AI Safety work. You’ll turn real‑world product data into reliable, well‑structured datasets for training and evaluating models, and help build the processes and infrastructure to continuously assess how those models perform in production.

This is a hands‑on role at the intersection of data science, ML, AI safety, and policy. You’ll work closely with safety researchers, engineers, and policy specialists to translate complex safety requirements into practical data and evaluation systems - starting hands‑on with collection, analysis, and labelling, then building the methodologies, contributor networks, and quality standards that let this work scale.

In this role, you will

• Own safety datasets end‑to‑end: collection, cleaning, labelling, quality control, versioning, and readiness for training and evaluation.

• Translate safety policy into clear, consistent labelling and evaluation criteria, working closely with policy specialists.

• Design and manage labelling processes, including sourcing, onboarding, and overseeing external contributors to a high quality bar.

• Build evaluation workflows for models in production, using real‑world data to track performance and surface issues.

• Develop lightweight Python/SQL pipelines and tooling to make data work faster and reproducible, partnering with ML engineers on what "training‑ready" looks like.

Who you are

• Experience as a Data Scientist, or similar, working with real‑world datasets and ML models.

• Strong grasp of what makes a good dataset: collection, cleaning, sampling, labelling, quality control, evaluation.

• Comfortable with Python and SQL for analysis and practical data workflows.

• Strong critical thinking and judgement - comfortable with ambiguity and nuance, and able to turn complex guidelines into consistent, scalable decisions.

• Autonomous and a clear communicator, able to work across disciplines (policy, engineering, research) in a fast‑moving, still‑forming environment.

Bonus points

• Experience in AI safety, trust & safety, content moderation, or fraud/abuse detection.

• Experience building datasets or evaluation frameworks, or with adversarial/safety‑focused ML.

• Experience managing human‑in‑the‑loop labelling processes, dataset versioning, or ML pipeline tooling.

• Experience operationalising guidelines with policy or legal teams.

Location

This role is based in London, where you’ll work closely with our AI Safety and Policy teams.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.