CareerPlan

Senior AI Engineer, AI Safety

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architecting and developing fundamental elements of safety infrastructure for advanced AI systems, focusing on autonomous automation cycles, harm detection, and content moderation.

Role type

Senior IC AI Safety Engineer

Builds

Scalable automated safety workflows, specialized safety models, and automated research pipelines for AI alignment.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence Safety / Machine Learning Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML engineering, software engineering, agentic systems & automation, Rust, Python, PyTorch, end-to-end execution

Preferred skills

Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, adversarial machine learning, content moderation, auto-research with LLMs, community contributions to agent frameworks

Technologies

LLMs, Rust, Python, PyTorch, LangChain, AutoGPT, Semantic Kernel

Responsibilities

Architect agentic automation loops for safety evaluations and model testing; Develop safety models for harm detection and run-time guard-railing; Build automated research frameworks using LLMs to discover vulnerabilities; Scale proof-of-concept safety interventions into production pipelines; Partner with researchers and data scientists to bridge theory and practice.