Safety Engineer - Free Tier Abuse

About the role

We are looking for an experienced AI Safety Engineer to drive the deployment and operationalization of automated moderation and guardrail systems. You will work alongside ML and full stack engineers to build production-grade safety infrastructure from the ground up, with a focus on preventing abuse of our free tiers. This is a product ownership role responsible for end-to-end technical execution, from architecture to deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for abuse detection, deploying AI/ML models into production systems
• Architect robust APIs, data pipelines, and service architectures supporting real-time and batch moderation workflows
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems; establish SLIs, SLOs, and performance benchmarks
• Partner with ML engineers to translate research models into production-ready systems and integrate them across our product suite
• Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap on how the next generation of platform guardrails should be built for scale and precision.

Required skills

• Backend engineering
• Python
• Distributed systems
• APIs
• Data pipelines
• AWS
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Fraud detection

Nice to have

• Trust & Safety
• Content Moderation
• Integrity engineering
• MLOps
• SQL
• Kafka
• Redis
• React

Benefits

• Professional development stipend
• Social travel stipend
• Annual company offsite
• Co-working stipend

About the Company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises, with platforms for voice, chat agents, and creative content generation.