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Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety

SpaceXAI · Palo Alto, CA

Posted about 3 months ago · $180,000 - $440,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
82 days
SpaceXAI's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
32% of SpaceXAI's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at SpaceXAI
high
257 stale, 5 reposted of 258 open
Hiring momentum
339 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

As a Product Safety Engineer on the Imagine team at SpaceX, you will design and implement safety systems for Grok’s media generation platform, focusing on real-time content moderation and risk detection across various media types. Your role involves building infrastructure to monitor safety risks, developing evaluation frameworks, and collaborating with engineering and product teams to ensure user experiences are both innovative and responsible. This position emphasizes balancing safety with creativity in AI-driven media experiences.

Our read on this posting3.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
5/5

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What you need

  • Proficiency in Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
  • Experience designing and building production safety, trust & safety, or content moderation systems for consumer-facing products at scale.
  • Hands-on expertise developing real-time detection systems, data pipelines, or evaluation frameworks for high-throughput AI applications.
  • Proven ability to deliver robust, reliable solutions that reach millions of users while maintaining high standards of uptime and performance.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for turning complex safety challenges into practical, high-impact engineering solutions.
  • Deep enthusiasm for responsible AI development and a commitment to building systems that advance humanity’s understanding while protecting users.

Nice to have

  • Experience with multimodal content safety (images, video, audio) or generative AI safety in production environments.
  • Familiarity with machine learning classifiers, safety evaluation, red-teaming, or adversarial testing for media generation models.
  • Background in distributed systems, real-time inference serving, Kubernetes, observability tools, or large-scale data infrastructure.
  • Track record collaborating across engineering, research, and policy teams to ship safety-critical features quickly and effectively.
  • Previous work on content moderation, anti-abuse, model alignment, or responsible AI at consumer AI products.

What you get

  • $180,000 - $440,000 USD
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short & long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility in work hours.
  • The role involves high responsibility in ensuring safety in AI, which may come with pressure to meet safety standards quickly.
  • The salary range is quite broad, which may indicate variability based on experience or negotiation.
  • Focus on safety may limit opportunities for pure creative development in AI.

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Listed by SpaceXAI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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