Safety Operations Lead
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
CHECKED 12H AGO
Frontier labonsitelead$250k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Make products safe by default while supporting fast product iteration.
- Build triage agents and abuse detection tooling from live casework.
- Embed safety into model refusals, flagging, and human-AI interfaces.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
Seasoned trust & safety operator who lives in the queue and turns patterns into policy and tooling. Pragmatic, speed-biased builder with strong product judgment for safe, frictionless human-AI experiences.
Requirements
- 7+ years in operational trust & safety, content moderation, or fraud/abuse ops with direct queue responsibility
- Experience owning policy definition, operationalization, and enforcement end to end
- Direct case experience with cybersecurity abuse, CBRN-relevant risk, youth safety, or prompt injection in production
- Working familiarity with model safety and abuse risks like jailbreaks, prompt injection, and scaled abuse
- Practical experience using AI tools like Claude or Codex to build or accelerate operational workflows
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
Lab profile
About Thinking Machines Lab
Builds frontier AI that extends human will and judgment through customizable models and interfaces.
What they build
- Inkling frontier models
- Tinker model customization
- Human-AI communication interfaces
Known for
- Frontier model training
- Post-training and reinforcement learning
- Evaluation infrastructure
- GPU supercomputing and reliability