Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety

SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. Employees are expected to contribute directly to the mission, communicate clearly, and thrive in a hands-on environment with a flat organizational structure.

About the Role

The Imagine team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. As a Product Safety Engineer, you will build critical safety systems and infrastructure for multimodal AI generation across images, video, audio, and beyond. The role focuses on designing safeguards, detection systems, and evaluation frameworks that balance creativity, innovation, and responsible AI deployment.

This position is ideal for engineers passionate about AI safety, content integrity, and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable safety systems for media generation platforms, including real-time content moderation and safeguard enforcement.
• Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and mitigate risks such as harmful content, bias, deepfakes, intellectual property issues, and misuse.
• Develop tools, pipelines, and evaluation frameworks for rapid iteration on safety policies.
• Architect feedback loops between user interactions, model outputs, and training data to improve safety and maintain low latency.
• Own full-cycle development of safety features from prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate with engineering, research, product, and policy teams to embed safety into core features.

Basic Qualifications

• Proficiency in Rust with experience writing scalable and maintainable code.
• Experience building production safety, trust & safety, or content moderation systems at scale.
• Hands-on expertise with real-time detection systems, data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks for AI applications.
• Ability to deliver reliable, high-performance systems used by millions of users.
• Strong problem-solving skills focused on AI safety challenges.
• Commitment to responsible AI development.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with multimodal content safety or generative AI safety in production environments.
• Familiarity with machine learning classifiers, red-teaming, adversarial testing, and safety evaluation.
• Background in distributed systems, inference serving, Kubernetes, observability tools, or large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, research, and policy teams.
• Previous work on moderation, anti-abuse, model alignment, or responsible AI systems.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $180,000 - $440,000 USD.
• Equity package included.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and additional employee perks.

SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer.