Safety Operations Tutor

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $44 - $63 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Safety Operations Tutor, you will contribute to xAI's mission by training and refining Grok to enforce our terms of service and support functions. Your work will directly impact the safety of our products, X, and Grok, by minimizing existential risks, enforcing xAI’s rules, and promoting responsible development, helping to prevent illegal and harmful content.

Requirements

• Expertise in improving Large Language Models (LLMs) to maximize efficiencies in enforcement and support and ability to propose solutions to increase security and safety of our platform.
• Proven experience in online safety and reducing harm to protect our users and preserve Free Speech in the global public square.
• Ability to interpret and apply xAI safety policies effectively.
• Proficiency in analyzing complex scenarios, with strong skills in ethical reasoning and risk assessment.
• Strong ability to utilize resources, guidelines, and frameworks for accurate safety-focused actions and escalations.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and ethical decision-making skills.
• Commitment to continuous improvement of processes to prioritize safety and risk mitigation.
• Expertise in data analysis to identify emerging abuse vectors, uncover opportunities for operational efficiencies, and design automations that strengthen enforcement effectiveness and platform safety.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a Trust and Safety for a social media company, leveraging AI or other automation tools.
• Expertise in red-teaming and adversarial testing of Large Language Models to proactively identify novel abuse vectors, jailbreaks, and safety failure modes, with a proven ability to translate findings into concrete improvements for enforcement systems and platform robustness.

Responsibilities

• Your responsibility is to monitor and take action on content and behavior that goes against our terms of service, escalating as needed.
• This will include processing appeals, auditing automations, and properly labeling use cases in the system.
• You will provide labels, annotations, and inputs on projects involving safety protocols, risk scenarios, and policy compliance.
• You must support the delivery of high-quality curated data that reinforces xAI’s rules and ethical alignment.
• In this effort, you will collaborate with team members to provide feedback on tasks that improve AI's defenses to detect illegal and unethical behavior, as well as align Grok with our rules enforcement.

Benefits

• equity
• comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• short & long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• various other discounts and perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed