Product Lead, Safety Systems & Trust

Inflection AI • Palo Alto, CA

15d

About The Position

At Inflection AI, our public benefit mission is to harness the power of AI to improve human well-being and productivity. The next era of AI will be defined by agents we trust to act on our behalf. We’re pioneering this future with human-centered AI models that unite emotional intelligence (EQ) and raw intelligence (IQ)—transforming interactions from transactional to relational, to create enduring value for individuals and enterprises alike. Our work comes to life in two ways today: Pi, your personal AI , designed to be a kind and supportive companion that elevates everyday life with practical assistance and perspectives. Platform — large-language models (LLMs) and APIs that enable builders, agents, and enterprises to bring Pi-class emotional intelligence into experiences where empathy and human understanding matter most. We are building toward a future of AI agents that earn trust, deepen understanding, and create aligned, long-term value for all. About the Role 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