AI Safety Engineer
Engineers technical safeguards, evaluations and mitigations for AI system risks.
Also seen as: AI Safety Researcher, Trust & Safety Engineer (AI)
Market status: growing · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory
What does a AI Safety Engineer do?
AI Safety Engineers build the technical layer of AI safety: red-teaming, safety evaluations, guardrails, misuse detection and mitigation systems. The role combines ML engineering skills with a focus on making powerful models behave safely in deployment.
Job titles we classify into this role
Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a AI Safety Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.
- Product Manager, Multi-Cloud Trust & Safety Anthropic
- Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security Anthropic
- Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety Databricks
Title variants normalized into this role: AI Safety Researcher · Trust & Safety Engineer (AI) — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.
Skills employers ask for
Early data — based on 3 tracked postings; treat percentages as indicative only.
Current AI Safety Engineer jobs
View all 3 →Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security
Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
Companies hiring AI Safety Engineers
Salary
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