AI Safety Engineer — Production & Scale

Elevenlabs; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative culture

Growth paths

Learning & development stipend

Annual company offsite

Co-working stipend

Job summary

ElevenLabs is seeking a skilled backend engineer to design and operate production-grade safety systems for AI products. You will build moderation, detection, and guardrail capabilities, with a strong focus on reliable infrastructure and scalable services.

You will collaborate with ML engineers, Legal, and Safety Policy to translate requirements into practical engineering solutions and contribute to the evolving safety infrastructure as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, working with databases, and building scalable services.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with modern backend frameworks.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
• C language experience.

Responsibilities

• Build safety systems: Design, develop, and scale automated moderation systems, abuse detection capabilities, and guardrails for AI agents across ElevenLabs' products.
• Respond to emerging threats: Partner closely with the Investigations team to identify emerging abuse patterns, understand evolving threats, and continuously improve existing safety systems, detection mechanisms, and guardrails to address new risks.
• Own production infrastructure: Build and maintain a growing ecosystem of internal safety services, taking ownership of their architecture, deployment, reliability, monitoring, and ongoing operation.
• Bring ML models into production: Partner closely with ML engineers to deploy and integrate fine-tuned and proprietary ML models into production safety systems, ensuring they operate reliably and efficiently at scale.
• Build end-to-end solutions: Develop backend services, APIs, internal tools, and user-facing interfaces that enable effective moderation, safety operations, and policy enforcement.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Legal, and Safety Policy teams to translate business, regulatory, and policy requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Product: Understand and navigate the tradeoffs between product growth, user experience, and platform safety.
• Legal: Translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable safety systems.
• Safety Policy: Collaborate on how safety policies are implemented technically, while helping inform policy decisions through an understanding of engineering capabilities and constraints.
• Shape our technical direction: Contribute to architectural decisions and help define how our safety infrastructure evolves as our products, users, and safety challenges grow.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

APIs design

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

Job description

ElevenLabs is seeking a skilled backend engineer to design and operate production-grade safety systems for AI products. You will build moderation, detection, and guardrail capabilities, with a strong focus on reliable infrastructure and scalable services.

You will collaborate with ML engineers, Legal, and Safety Policy to translate requirements into practical engineering solutions and contribute to the evolving safety infrastructure as the company grows.