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 to secure and align advanced AI systems, focusing on autonomous automation cycles for harm detection and content moderation.

Role type

Senior IC AI Safety Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Builds

Scalable automated research pipelines, safety models, and production guardrails for AI systems.

Domain

AI Safety, Autonomous Agents, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agentic systems & automation, LLM orchestration, Rust, Python, PyTorch, End-to-end execution, Complex workflow design

Preferred skills

Trust & Safety background, Adversarial ML, Auto-research frameworks, AI safety benchmarking

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Architect agentic automation loops for safety evaluations and model testing; Develop specialized 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 platform engineers to bridge theory and practice.