Data Scientist - AI Safety

About the role

About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always.

What they’re looking for

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• Experience as a Data Scientist, or similar, working with real-world datasets and ML models.
• Strong grasp of what makes a good dataset: collection, cleaning, sampling, labelling, quality control, evaluation.
• Comfortable with Python and SQL for analysis and practical data workflows.
• Strong critical thinking and judgement - comfortable with ambiguity and nuance, and able to turn complex guidelines into consistent, scalable decisions.
• Autonomous and a clear communicator, able to work across disciplines (policy, engineering, research) in a fast-moving, still-forming environment.

Helpful, not always essential

• Experience in AI safety, trust & safety, content moderation, or fraud/abuse detection.
• Experience building datasets or evaluation frameworks, or with adversarial/safety-focused ML.
• Experience managing human-in-the-loop labelling processes, dataset versioning, or ML pipeline tooling.
• Experience operationalising guidelines with policy or legal teams.