Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety
xAI· Engineering
Palo Alto, CA$180k - $440kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Product Safety Engineer on the Imagine team responsible for building safety systems and infrastructure for Grok’s multimodal generation capabilities (images, video, audio) to ensure safe, responsible, and high-quality AI-driven media experiences at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable safety systems for Grok’s media generation platform, including real-time content moderation, risk detection, and safeguard enforcement for images, video, and audio.
- Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and mitigate safety risks such as harmful content, bias, deepfakes, intellectual property issues, and misuse at global scale.
- Develop tools, pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that enable rapid iteration on safety policies in collaboration with researchers, product, and policy teams.
- Architect robust feedback loops between user interactions, model outputs, and training data to continuously improve safety while maintaining high performance and low latency.
- Own full-cycle development of safety features: from problem definition and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, incident response, and long-term refinement.
- Partner closely with the Imagine engineering, research, and product teams to embed safety into core features and deliver delightful yet responsible user experiences.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Experience designing and building production safety, trust & safety, or content moderation systems for consumer-facing products at scale.
- Hands-on expertise developing real-time detection systems, data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks for high-throughput AI applications.
- Proven ability to deliver robust, reliable solutions that reach millions of users while maintaining high standards of uptime and performance.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for turning complex safety challenges into practical, high-impact engineering solutions.
- Deep enthusiasm for responsible AI development and a commitment to building systems that advance humanity’s understanding while protecting users.
Skills
Required:RustProduction safety/content moderation systemsReal-time detection systems / data pipelines / evaluation frameworksSystem reliability and performanceResponsible AI / safety culture
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- various other discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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