Technical Staff Member, Trust & Safety Engineer

Role Description

We're looking for a Trust & Safety Engineer to help ensure Runway's generative AI models have a positive impact as they reach millions of users. You'll be embedded across product, research, and policy teams — serving as a core safety partner from early design through post-launch monitoring.

This role sits at the intersection of model safety and platform infrastructure. You'll:

• Design and run red teaming systems to surface harmful outputs before they reach production.
• Build tooling to enforce content policies at scale.
• Help define safety strategies for capabilities that don't exist yet.
• Collaborate closely with legal and policy to translate evolving guidelines into technical controls.
• Work with product and API teams to ship safety features.
• Collaborate with ML research when evaluating new model behaviors.

Please note that this role will occasionally involve handling sensitive content, including content that is sexual, violent, or otherwise disturbing.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with production experience in Python or TypeScript.
• A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset.
• Comfort working across the stack.
• Experience with data pipelines or analytics infrastructure.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Humility and open-mindedness.

Requirements

• Own systems end-to-end (infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, incident response).
• Identify risks, not just respond to tickets.
• Translate ambiguous, fast-evolving policy requirements into concrete technical solutions.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market rates.
• Commitment to pay equity.
• Consideration for candidates with varying levels of experience.
• Inclusive work environment encouraging diverse backgrounds.