Staff Software Engineer, AI Safety

The role

You will build shared software to help the team understand and reduce societal risks from scientific AI. You will develop reusable services, libraries, and applications to support research in threat modeling, evaluations, red teaming, and mitigation.

What you will do

• Build reusable services, libraries and model/tool integrations for evaluations and red-teaming.
• Develop applications to help researchers organize evidence, inspect results, and investigate failures.
• Work with safety colleagues to turn research workflows into maintainable software.
• Build data pipelines and experiment records to make findings traceable and reproducible.
• Own the reliability and usability of shared safety tools through testing, debugging, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with core AI and software engineering teams to align on infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• Track record of independently delivering and maintaining production software.
• Strong Python and backend engineering skills.
• Experience designing APIs, working with databases and building data or execution pipelines.
• Experience translating the needs of researchers or domain experts into usable tools.
• Sound engineering judgment in system design, testing and debugging.
• Engineering experience in AI research, AI safety, scientific computing or other settings with rapidly evolving experimental workflows.
• Clear communication.
• An interest in scientific AI safety.

Nice to have

• Building safety-specific tooling.
• Building full-stack internal applications, annotation or review tools, or systems for managing experimental evidence.
• Experience with distributed experiment execution, model-serving integrations or isolated environments for agent evaluations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.