Software Engineer, API Safety
Core
Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability to ensure safe deployment of frontier AI models.
Role type
Senior IC backend/platform engineer (API safety)
Builds
Scalable systems extending trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments
Domain
AI safety, API infrastructure, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
backend engineering, distributed systems, API design, system scalability, latency optimization, observability, concurrency management, technical leadership, product judgment
Preferred skills
trust and safety systems, abuse prevention, identity and security, compliance systems
Technologies
Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Design and build dashboards and APIs for safety controls and customer-facing observability; Develop scalable systems that extend trusted safety capabilities to new use cases, customers, and deployment environments; Partner with Safety Research and Integrity to build safeguards that mitigate emerging risks; Be responsible for the availability, latency, and scalability of safeguards across high-volume API traffic; Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
