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Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety

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3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable real-time content moderation, risk detection, and safeguard enforcement systems for image, video, and audio generation.
  • Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and mitigate harmful content, bias, deepfakes, intellectual property issues, and misuse at global scale.
  • Develop tools, pipelines, and evaluation frameworks for rapid safety-policy iteration.
  • Architect feedback loops among user interactions, model outputs, and training data to improve safety, performance, and latency.
  • Own safety features from problem definition and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, incident response, and long-term refinement.
  • Partner with engineering, research, product, and policy teams to embed safety into core features.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Rust and a track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
  • Experience building production safety, trust and safety, or content moderation systems for consumer-facing products at scale.
  • Hands-on experience developing real-time detection systems, data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks for high-throughput AI applications.
  • Ability to deliver reliable solutions serving millions of users while maintaining uptime and performance.
  • Preferred experience with multimodal content safety, generative AI safety, machine learning classifiers, safety evaluation, red-teaming, or adversarial testing.
  • Preferred background in distributed systems, real-time inference serving, Kubernetes, observability tools, or large-scale data infrastructure.
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, research, product, and policy teams is preferred.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.

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1,001-5,000 employees

Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers

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