Data & AI · observed market
AI Evaluation & Safety jobs and hiring requirements
Data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI research. Counts are derived from employer-published vacancies; current roles use a 30-day observation window and older still-published listings are shown separately.
What the work involves
AI evaluation and safety specialists design tests that support decisions about model or system behavior. Work may focus on task quality, robustness, misuse or deployment risks. These objectives need different datasets and scoring procedures; a single benchmark score cannot establish that a system is ready for every application.
Reference for this specialty ↗Useful application evidence
- A defined evaluation objective and test population
- Scoring validity, leakage checks and failure analysis
- A measured finding that changed a release decision
What this role market shows
Freshness
48%
of still-published listings are in the current observation window
Most visible technology
AI
19 current vacancy mentions
Leading location
United States
10 current role mentions
Evidence mix
Top technologies by requirement tier
Counts are mentions in current vacancies. One vacancy may mention several technologies.
Requirement evidence
Technologies employers ask for in AI Evaluation & Safety
AI
19 current roles
Machine Learning
19 current roles
Python
15 current roles
LLM
14 current roles
AI Evaluation
13 current roles
AI Agents
7 current roles
AWS
7 current roles
Fine-tuning
7 current roles
GenAI
7 current roles
Reliability Engineering
7 current roles
Scalability
7 current roles
CI/CD
6 current roles
Current market
Latest current vacancies
Senior AI Evals Engineer
Rubrik · Bengaluru, India
Senior AI Safety Researcher
Google · Kirkland, Washington, United States
Agent Evaluation Engineer - Build-Time Framework & Deployment Gates
Intellias · Strong Middle
Senior AI Safety Researcher
Google · Mountain View, California, United States
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Safety
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
Machine Learning Engineer, AI Safety
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
Technical Program Manager, Data Collection and Model Evaluation (Fixed-Term Contract), DeepMind
Google · Mountain View, California, United States
Senior Solutions Architect, Agentic AI - Safety and Security
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
Senior Manager, AI Safety and Security Engineering
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
AI Evaluation Infrastructure Engineer
Block · Bay Area, California, United States
Work formats
Seniority
Evidence route
How this role market is assembled
Employer-published vacancies are classified by specialty. Current demand is kept apart from older still-published listings; employer, technology and location views come from that same cached role snapshot.
Illustrative process diagram. The charts above show the actual counts for AI Evaluation & Safety.
Still published by employers
Long-running source-active roles
These listings remain on their publishers’ career sites but are older than the current-market window. They remain discoverable without inflating fresh-demand totals.
Senior Operational Program Manager, AI Safety and Behavior, DeepMind
Google · Mountain View, California, United States
Distinguished Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, California, United States; Remote — United States
Senior Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security
Google · Singapore
Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security
Google · Singapore
Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations
OpenAI · San Francisco, USA
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