Safety Engineer - Free Tier Abuse

About the role

ElevenLabs is seeking an experienced AI Safety Engineer to lead the development and operationalization of automated moderation and guardrail systems. You will work with ML and full-stack engineers to build production-grade safety infrastructure, focusing on preventing abuse within the platform's free tiers. This role involves end-to-end technical ownership, bridging the gap between ML research and scalable production systems.

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
• Distributed systems
• APIs
• Data pipelines
• Python
• 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

• Annual discretionary professional development stipend
• Annual discretionary social travel stipend
• Annual company offsite
• Monthly co-working stipend

About the Company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. They offer platforms for voice and chat agents, creative content generation, and developer access to AI audio models.