Product Lead, Safety Systems & Trust

Inflection AI • Palo Alto, CA

21d • $230,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Inflection AI creates high-EQ AI agents that people and brands can trust. As creators of the original high-EQ frontier models, we continue to view Trust & Safety as foundational as we develop agents that are emotionally intelligent, deeply capable, and radically steerable.
As the Product Lead for Safety Systems & Trust, you will own the end-to-end vision, strategy, and execution for the internal platforms that enable secure, reliable, and ethical deployment. You will be the primary champion of proactive alignment and safety-by-design, working cross-functionally to define Inflection AI’s trust and safety ecosystem and establish standards for accountable, safe, and ethical platform operations.

Requirements

• Technical deep-diver with a strong grasp of ML concepts including LLMs, RAG, diffusion models, and the nuances of model drift.
• 8+ years of product experience, with a track record of shipping complex products from 0 to 1 at scale, ideally in Integrity, Trust & Safety, or other high-stakes AI domains.
• Systems thinker who thrives in high-ambiguity, low-precedent environments where you define both the problem and the solution.
• Ethical architect and first-principles thinker committed to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity.
• Hands-on experience with Constitutional AI or self-correction loops in LLM chains.
• Deep expertise in adversarial analysis, including many-shot jailbreaking and prompt injection mitigation.
• Proficiency in creating safety evaluations and using telemetry to measure system performance and blind spots.
• Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements.

Responsibilities

• Productize safety stack and inference engine capabilities, including low-latency, token-level safety filters and constrained decoding protocols that block harm without degrading performance.
• Partner with Research on alignment and model behavior, defining RLHF/DPO objectives and reinforcement signals while developing taxonomies for steerability and model behavior.
• Lead adversarial assessment and red-teaming initiatives, architecting automated stress-test infrastructure and evaluation frameworks for safety benchmarks.
• Serve as a strategic leader driving cross-functional teams to implement and evolve Inflection’s most critical safety initiatives.
• Build the affordance layer for trust, working with Design to ensure users understand when and why to trust AI interactions and agent decisions.
• Drive policy-as-code execution, partnering with Legal and Engineering to translate privacy, safety, and brand principles into technical specifications.
• Shape system instructions, fine-tuning datasets, and user experience guardrails to support safe and ethical AI deployment.

Benefits

• Diverse medical, dental and vision options
• 401k matching program
• Unlimited paid time off
• Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
• Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level