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AI Safety Engineer

Engineers technical safeguards, evaluations and mitigations for AI system risks.

Also seen as: AI Safety Researcher, Trust & Safety Engineer (AI)

3
open jobs tracked
2
companies hiring
1
remote openings
n/a
salary not disclosed

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.

Python
67%
Spark
33%
SQL
33%
Azure
33%
AWS
33%
AI Agents
33%
LLM
33%

Current AI Safety Engineer jobs

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Companies hiring AI Safety Engineers

Salary

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