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
• Ability to work across the stack
• 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
• Worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Skills

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

Benefits

• Annual compensation range: $320,000—$485,000 USD
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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

• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
• Compensation and benefits: Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage

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