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Senior ML Engineer - AI Safety & Evaluation

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: A10 Networks
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-18
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Evaluation, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 200000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 200000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Senior Staff ML Engineer - AI Safety & Evaluation About the Team We’re building a future where AI systems are not only powerful but safe, aligned, and robust against misuse. Our team focuses on advancing practical safety techniques for large language models (LLMs) and multimodal systems—ensuring these models remain aligned with human intent and resist attempts to produce harmful, toxic, or policy-violating content.

We operate at the intersection of model development and real-world deployment, with a mission to build systems that can proactively detect and prevent jailbreaks, toxic behaviors, and other forms of misuse. Our work blends applied research, systems engineering, and evaluation design to ensure safety is built into our models at every layer.

About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to help lead our efforts in designing, building, and evaluating next-generation safety mechanisms for foundation models. You’ll guide a team of research engineers focused on scaling safety interventions, building tooling for red teaming and model inspection, and designing robust evaluations that stress-test models in realistic threat scenarios.

What You’ll DoLead the development of model-level safety defenses to mitigate jailbreaks, prompt injection, and other forms of unsafe or non-compliant outputs

Design and develop evaluation pipelines to detect edge cases, regressions, and emerging vulnerabilities in LLM behavior

Contribute to the design and execution of adversarial testing and red teaming workflows to identify model safety gaps Support fine-tuning workflows, pre/post-processing logic, and filtering techniques to enforce safety across deployed models

Work with red teamers and researchers to turn emerging threats into testable evaluation cases and measurable risk indicators

Stay current on LLM safety research, jailbreak tactics, and adversarial prompting trends, and help translate those into practical defenses for real-world products

What We’re Looking For5+ years of experience in machine learning or AI systems, with 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity

Experience integrating safety interventions into ML deployment workflows (e.g., inference servers, filtering layers, etc.)Good understanding of transformer-based models and experience with LLM safety, robustness, or interpretability

Strong background in evaluating model behavior, especially in adversarial or edge-case scenarios

Strong communication skills and ability to drive alignment across diverse teams

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related fieldAI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

Compensation up to 192K
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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