Safety engineer, utility safety (UK) at WRITER

Job Description

🚀 About WRITER

WRITER is the place the world’s main enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our imaginative and prescient is to increase human capability by means of superintelligence. And we’re proving it’s potential – by means of highly effective, reliable AI that unites IT and enterprise groups collectively to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER’s end-to-end platform, a whole lot of corporations like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are constructing and deploying AI brokers which can be grounded of their firm’s knowledge and fueled by WRITER’s enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading traders together with Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is quickly cementing its place because the chief in enterprise generative AI.

Founded in 2020 with workplace hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our group thinks massive and strikes quick, and we’re searching for sensible, hardworking builders and scalers to hitch us on our journey to create a greater future of labor with AI.

📐 About the position

This is the place safety meets innovation at enterprise scale. As a safety engineer, functions at WRITER, you’ll be constructing the safety foundations that defend the AI techniques powering among the world’s most recognizable manufacturers. You’ll work on the intersection of utility safety, AI infrastructure, and developer enablement—partnering with engineering groups to embed safety into each line of code whereas guaranteeing our platform stays each highly effective and reliable.

The alternative is very large: you’ll assist outline how enterprise AI functions are secured, from risk modeling our LLM architectures to constructing automated safety controls that scale throughout our rising platform. This isn’t about saying “no”—it’s about discovering artistic methods to say “sure, and right here’s how we do it securely.” You’ll sort out challenges that the majority safety engineers by no means encounter: securing AI brokers, defending coaching knowledge pipelines, and designing controls for techniques that didn’t exist a couple of years in the past.

This position is hybrid from our London workplace, reporting to the top of safety engineering.

🦸🏻‍♀️ What you’ll do

• Build safety into the DNA of our AI platform by conducting risk modeling classes with product groups, designing safe architectures for brand new options, and guaranteeing safety issues form product selections from day one—not after the very fact

• Own and evolve our utility safety program together with set up and preserve SAST/DAST scanning in CI/CD pipelines, conducting safety code evaluations for essential modifications, and constructing automation that catches vulnerabilities earlier than they attain manufacturing

• Partner with engineering groups to determine and champion safe coding requirements, creating reusable safety patterns and libraries that make it simpler for builders to construct securely by default

• Design and suggest safety features and merchandise that assist safe buyer environments. You are the advocate and the imaginative and prescient for a way we defend and safe prospects..

• Integrate and leverage AI brokers to assist improve velocity for the safety group and the overarching engineering org to make sure that we’re proactive in minimizing threat whereas we construct merchandise

• Lead safety assessments and penetration testing of WRITER’s functions, AI providers, and APIs, figuring out vulnerabilities throughout our tech stack and dealing collaboratively with groups to remediate points at scale

• Design and implement safety controls for safeguarding knowledge pipelines, mannequin coaching environments, and customer-facing AI brokers

• Stay forward of rising threats within the AI/ML safety panorama, researching assault vectors particular to LLMs and generative AI, and proactively constructing defenses in opposition to novel dangers

⭐️ What you want

• 4+ years of hands-on expertise in utility safety engineering, with a confirmed observe report of securing large-scale manufacturing techniques—bonus factors for those who’ve labored in fast-growing startups or high-growth environments

• Understanding of developer expertise and developer workflows for transport options and merchandise. You care deeply about decreasing threat whereas contemplating velocity of engineers.

• Technical experience in not less than two programming languages (Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript) and the power to learn and evaluation code throughout a number of languages, understanding each enterprise logic and safety implications

• Knowledge of safety instruments and methodologies together with SAST/DAST options, vulnerability administration platforms, safety testing frameworks, and DevSecOps practices— which instruments to make use of and when automation beats handbook evaluation

• Excellent communication abilities that mean you can translate advanced safety ideas into clear suggestions for each technical and non-technical audiences—you possibly can clarify why one thing issues and inspire groups to motion

• A builder’s mindset that appears for alternatives to automate, scale, and empower somewhat than create bottlenecks—you perceive that safety allows the enterprise, not blocks it

• Alignment with WRITER’s values of Connect (constructing robust relationships throughout groups), Challenge (pushing the boundaries of what’s potential in AI safety), and Own (taking end-to-end accountability for the safety of our platform)

🍩 Benefits & perks (UK full-time workers):

• Generous PTO, plus firm holidays

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance coverage

• Paid parental depart for all dad and mom (16 weeks)

• Fertility and household planning help

• Early-detection most cancers testing by means of Galleri

• Competitive pension scheme and firm contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Wellness stipend for gymnasium, therapeutic massage/chiropractor, private coaching, and so on.

  • Learning and growth stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and group off-sites

• Competitive compensation and firm inventory choices