Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards

About the role

We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being.

Responsibilities

• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
• Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure
• Surface abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage
• Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in Python and Typescript
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position
• Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
• Experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems
• Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
• Experience working closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Skills

• Technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight
• Experience enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies

Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary $320,000—$485,000 USD

Pay

Annual Salary $320,000—$485,000 USD

Schedule

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• A lovely office space

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage

Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.