Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

This role builds the methods and infrastructure that make them so. Sitting at the intersection of applied ML research and engineering, you'll design experiments to improve how we evaluate both model behavior and the agentic systems that govern it, build datasets that represent real abuse rather than clean approximations of it, and ship those methods into the pipelines that gate model training, agent changes, and launch decisions.

What it asks for · 7

• 8+ years of industry software engineering or ML engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines
• Experience working with LLMs and a working understanding of their capabilities and failure modes — especially agentic systems with tool use and multi-step reasoning
• Strong data analysis skills — you can draw reliable insights from large datasets
• Ability to move fluidly between research prototyping and production-quality code
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into concrete, testable experiments
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your work to have real impact

Also a plus

• Expertise in building or contributing to LLM or agent evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or automated grading systems
• Extensive experience in trust and safety, content moderation, or abuse detection systems
• Experience in red teaming, adversarial testing, or jailbreak research on AI systems
• Experience with synthetic data generation or data augmentation
• Experience with distributed systems or large-scale data processing
• Experience with prompt engineering or building LLM-powered applications

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• evaluation10×
• model9×
• experience8×
• systems8×
• research7×
• agent6×
• data6×
• engineering5×
• agentic4×
• behavior4×
• build4×
• datasets4×
• harm4×
• investigation4×
• misuse4×
• real4×

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