Safety Systems Engineer

Engineering · Model Safety
Remote — US, United States
Senior
Remote

Job Overview

You will build and operate the classifiers, monitoring, and red-teaming infrastructure that sit between our models and the people using them. This is engineering work with real consequences: the systems you build decide what gets through.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate real-time safety classifiers in the serving path
  • Develop red-teaming infrastructure and turn findings into durable mitigations
  • Instrument model behaviour in production and investigate anomalies
  • Partner with policy and research teams to turn guidelines into enforceable systems

Qualifications

  • 5+ years building production machine learning or backend systems
  • Experience with content classification, abuse detection, or trust and safety tooling
  • Strong judgement about tradeoffs between false positives and real-world harm
  • Comfortable working with ambiguous, evolving requirements

Compensation & Benefits

This position has an estimated salary range of $285,000.00 - $395,000.00 per year, plus potential equity and bonus.

Key skills

Python
PyTorch
classification
observability
threat modeling

Compliance Information

Equal Opportunity: Northwind is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.

Hiring Disclosure: We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.

Labor Law Reference: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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