Ai Safety Engineer

Summary

Join ElevenLabs, a pioneering voice technology company, as a remote Backend Engineer specializing in trust and safety. You will play a core role in building and maintaining anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure, ensuring responsible AI development. This position requires strong Python and backend development experience, familiarity with safety engineering principles, and a passion for ethical AI. ElevenLabs offers a remote-first work environment, a global team, opportunities for continuous growth, and a high-velocity innovation culture. The ideal candidate will have experience with backend safety infrastructure, trust and safety teams, and data analysis tools. Preference is given to candidates located on the East Coast or in Europe.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Python, including asynchronous Python; proven track record of building production Python applications
• Strong background in backend development including setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines
• Familiarity with common software and system design patterns and infrastructure including APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions, data structures etc
• Knowledge about test design and security fundamentals

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain our anti-abuse and content moderation infrastructure designed to protect us and end users from unwanted behavior
• Develop ubiquitous moderation coverage across our deployments
• Expand our internal safety tooling and infrastructure
• Collaborate with broader engineering teams to design and build safety mitigations across our product suite
• Collaborate with our data team to develop and maintain actionable safety metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Backend safety infrastructure & tooling
• Trust and safety, integrity or AI safety teams
• SQL and data analysis tools
• React
• Technical investigators and machine learning engineers to integrate ML/AI models to detect, monitor and enforce on abusive content

Benefits

• High-velocity innovation: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy
• A truly global team: Collaboration with teammates across 30+ countries, a global customer footprint and office hubs in New York, London and Warsaw. Annual company offsite for the whole team to get together (the last one in Croatia!)
• Remote first: We prioritize your talent, not your location, with structured asynchronous workflows for maximum impact and minimal meetings
• Continuous growth : Collaborate with AI leaders, shape your path, and contribute where you excel most