CareerPlan

Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals

San Francisco, CAFull-time$320k–$485k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design experiments, build datasets, and ship infrastructure to evaluate AI model safety, agentic systems, and misuse detection.

Role type

Staff+ Software Engineer (AI Safety & Evaluation)

Builds

Evaluation harnesses, test datasets, and pipelines for model training and agent changes.

Domain

AI Safety, Trust & Safety, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM evaluation frameworks, data pipeline engineering, experimental design, data analysis, agentic system reasoning, synthetic data generation, distributed systems

Preferred skills

Red teaming, adversarial testing, jailbreak research, content moderation, prompt engineering, RL environments

Technologies

LLMs, agentic systems, data pipelines, RL environments

Responsibilities

Design experiments to improve evaluation quality and validate grading accuracy; Build and own evaluation harnesses for agentic investigation systems; Construct high-quality eval datasets representing real-world misuse; Ship research into evaluation and release pipelines.

Seniority

Staff+, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship