Engineering Manager, Safeguards Interventions

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Interventions team responsible for what happens when a safety system fires. You will own the composable arsenal of interventions across all surfaces, ensuring safe deployment of models and products.

You will drive cross‑functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal, and set ship readiness through measurement and safety/product tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• Have managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems where the system's decisions directly affected users.
• Have run high‑stakes, compliance‑adjacent production systems: on‑call, incidents, regulator‑driven requirements, and building the process scaffolding that prevents recurrence.
• Care about measurement: you've built (or insisted on) the evals that prove a system does what it claims, and you've killed things that didn't.
• Can drive ambiguous, multi‑stakeholder tradeoffs (safety vs UX vs latency vs cost) to a decision and own the outcome.
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your team's work to be the reason advanced models can be deployed at all.

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on lead and grow a team of engineers; own roadmap, OKRs, and execution.
• Drive cross‑functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal - and with cloud partners for 3P deployment.
• Set the bar for when an intervention is good enough to ship - backed by measurement - and represent safety and product tradeoffs to leadership and external stakeholders.
• Own production reliability for intervention and compliance systems: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and the verification processes that prevent repeat incidents.

Job description

About the role

The Safeguards team is responsible for ensuring our models and products are developed and deployed safely. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Interventions team: the group responsible for what happens when a safety system fires. It owns the composable arsenal of systems that sit between our detection stack (classifiers and probes) and the user, across every the company surface: 1P products, the API, and third-party clouds. This includes inline interventions for areas like bio, cyber, and acceptable usage as well as downstream areas like child safety and copyright. This team is responsible for ensuring that we evolve and drive the quality of our interventions to enable our products to grow safely.

Key responsibilities

• Hands‑on lead and grow a team of engineers; own roadmap, OKRs, and execution.
• Drive cross‑functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal - and with cloud partners for 3P deployment.
• Set the bar for when an intervention is good enough to ship - backed by measurement - and represent safety and product tradeoffs to leadership and external stakeholders.
• Own production reliability for intervention and compliance systems: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and the verification processes that prevent repeat incidents.

Minimum qualifications

• Have managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems where the system's decisions directly affected users.
• Have run high‑stakes, compliance‑adjacent production systems: comfortable with on‑call, incidents, regulator‑driven requirements, and building the process scaffolding that prevents recurrence.
• Care about measurement: you've built (or insisted on) the evals that prove a system does what it claims, and you've killed things that didn't.
• Can drive ambiguous, multi‑stakeholder tradeoffs (safety vs UX vs latency vs cost) to a decision and own the outcome.
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your team's work to be the reason advanced models can be deployed at all.

Preferred qualifications

• Have worked in trust & safety, integrity, or abuse‑prevention engineering at scale.
• Experience with compliance‑driven systems (child safety, copyright, age assurance) and the legal/policy interfaces they require.
• Have shipped systems across multiple cloud providers and understand the parity/verification problems that creates.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you’re interested in this work.

Annual Salary

$405,000 — $485,000 USD