ElevenLabs · 15 hours ago
Safety Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
6+ years expElevenLabs is a research and product company defining the frontier of audio AI. They are seeking an experienced AI Safety Engineer to drive the deployment and operationalization of automated moderation and guardrail systems that protect their platform and users across a multimodal space.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Content CreatorsDeveloper APIsFoundational AIGenerative AI
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation, abuse detection and agents guardrails, 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
Qualification
Required
6+ years of backend software engineering experience building production systems at scale
Strong production backend experience: distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and Python expertise (asynchronous Python, backend frameworks)
Infrastructure & DevOps proficiency: cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines
Observability mindset with experience in monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and building observable systems
Track record of taking products or systems from 0→1 with measurable impact, including deploying or working alongside ML/AI systems in production
Preferred
Trust & Safety, Content Moderation, or Integrity engineering experience
MLOps experience: deployment, monitoring, and versioning of ML models
Experience with SQL, data analysis tools, real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Redis), or event-driven architectures
Familiarity with React or modern frontend frameworks
Benefits
Annual discretionary stipend
Annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year
Annual company offsite
Monthly co-working stipend
Company
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI company that offers tools for speech synthesis, voice cloning, dubbing, and audio generation.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$281MKey Investors
Matthew McConaugheyNVIDIADisney Accelerator
2025-11-11Undisclosed
2025-09-23Corporate Round
2025-01-24Series C· $180M
Leadership Team
Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder
Piotr Dabkowski
Co-Founder
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