Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation

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. This role will focus on building systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models. You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies.

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

You may be a good fit if you have:

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience

Proficiency in Python and Typescript

An ability to work across the stack

Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Strong candidates may also:

8+ years of experience in a software engineering position

Have experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation

Have experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems

Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs

Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

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