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Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals

New York City, NY💼 Full-time💰 $320,000–$320,000🗓 2026-06-09 → 2026-07-31

Core

Build evaluation infrastructure for AI safety investigation agents to measure detection performance, robustness, and coverage against real-world misuse.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (safety evals)

Builds

Evaluation harnesses, datasets, and pipelines for agentic investigation systems

Domain

AI safety, trust and safety, large language models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, data pipelines, LLMs and agentic systems, data analysis, research prototyping, experiment design

Preferred skills

agent evaluation frameworks, trust and safety, red teaming, synthetic data generation, distributed systems, prompt engineering

Technologies

Python, LLMs, RL environments

Responsibilities

Build and own evaluation harness for agentic investigation system; Construct high-quality eval datasets representing real-world misuse; Measure agent performance end-to-end; Analyze coverage to identify measurement gaps; Productionize research into regression and release pipelines; Build tooling for policy experts to author evaluations; Construct RL environments to improve safety investigation capabilities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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