AI Safety Engineer - Moderation & Guardrails (Remote)

Elevenlabs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ElevenLabs is seeking an experienced AI Safety Engineer to design and deploy automated moderation and guardrails across a multimodal platform, with a focus on preventing abuse of free tiers. You’ll collaborate with ML and full‑stack engineers to build production‑grade safety infrastructure from the ground up.

This product‑ownership role covers end‑to‑end technical execution, bridging ML research and scalable systems, ensuring observability, reliability, and measurable safety impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering production systems at scale.
• Strong Python backend expertise (asynchronous Python, frameworks).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and containerization (Docker/K8s).
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana) and ML/AI model integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for abuse detection.
• Architect robust APIs, data pipelines, and services for real-time and batch moderation.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability with SLIs and SLOs.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize research models.
• Drive safety roadmap and platform guardrails at scale with precision.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Distributed systems

APIs

Observability

ML/AI integration

Security

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kafka

Redis

React

Job description

ElevenLabs is seeking an experienced AI Safety Engineer to design and deploy automated moderation and guardrails across a multimodal platform, with a focus on preventing abuse of free tiers. You’ll collaborate with ML and full‑stack engineers to build production‑grade safety infrastructure from the ground up.

This product‑ownership role covers end‑to‑end technical execution, bridging ML research and scalable systems, ensuring observability, reliability, and measurable safety impact.