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ElevenLabsElevenLabs

Safety Engineer

2mo ago
EuropeRemote
ElevenLabsElevenLabs

Safety Engineer

2mo ago
EuropeRemote

Safety Engineer role at ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company in the UK.

Responsibilities

  • We're looking for an experienced AI Safety Engineer to drive the deployment and operationalization of automated moderation and guardrail systems that protect our platform and users across a multimodal space. You'll work alongside a team of ML and full stack engineers to build production-grade safety infrastructure from the ground up.
  • This is a product ownership role where you'll be responsible for end-to-end technical execution of our safety systems, from architecture to deployment andto monitoring. You'll bridge the gap between ML research and production-grade systems, ensuring our safety infrastructure is robust, observable, and scalable.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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

Conditions

  • Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
  • Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
  • Learning & development : ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
  • Social travel : We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
  • Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
  • Co-working : If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.

Other

  • ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
  • We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
  • ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
  • ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
  • ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
  • Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
  • High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
  • Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
  • AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
  • Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
  • Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
  • This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.
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