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AI safety (responsible AI)

Work to keep AI systems from causing harm: abuse prevention, red-teaming, safety evaluations, and the policies that decide what a product will not do.

Hiring data as of September 20, 2026 · refreshed daily

companies naming it
7 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it
10open roles naming it
of those based in NYC
3of those based in NYC
pay: under 8 posted ranges
—pay: under 8 posted ranges

What AI safety means

Inside a product company, AI safety is concrete. It means detecting and blocking misuse, red-teaming models before release, building evaluation sets for harmful behavior, and setting the content and usage policies that the product enforces. “Responsible AI” is the phrase the same work goes by in enterprise and public-sector settings.

It is distinct from, though related to, the research field concerned with the alignment of frontier models. New York has comparatively little of the latter and a growing amount of the former, particularly at companies whose models generate voices, faces, or video.

AI safety in New York job posts

7 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI safety in at least one open role today, across 10 postings. 3 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

It is not confined to one function. Engineering roles are the largest group, at only 40% of the postings that name it.

How to read it

We match “AI safety”, “model safety”, “responsible AI”, and AI red-teaming in the description. We do not count the bare word “alignment”, which in most postings means stakeholder alignment. Roles naming it are mostly engineering, followed by go-to-market roles selling into the public sector, and cluster at generative-media companies.

What these roles pay

Not enough data to publish. We need at least eight distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming AI safety before showing a median, and today there are fewer. For posted pay by function and seniority across the whole market, use the NYC salary calculator or the NYC AI engineer salary guide.

Trend

We began extracting this term from posting text on September 20, 2026. Job descriptions disappear when a role is filled, so the series cannot be backfilled; a trend line appears here once a week of data exists.

Who names it

Open roles naming AI safety, by company.

  • ElevenLabs3
  • Comet2
  • Anterior1
  • EvolutionIQ1
  • Headway1
  • Sixfold1
  • SmarterDx1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

  • Engineering4
  • GTM3
  • Research1
  • People1
  • Product1
  • Mid8
  • Staff/Principal2

Named alongside AI safety

Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 7 companies pair the two.

Open roles naming AI safety

A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.

On the AI in NYC Show

How this is counted

Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.

The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.

Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.

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AI safety — common questions

What does AI safety mean in an AI job posting?

Work to keep AI systems from causing harm: abuse prevention, red-teaming, safety evaluations, and the policies that decide what a product will not do. We match “AI safety”, “model safety”, “responsible AI”, and AI red-teaming in the description. We do not count the bare word “alignment”, which in most postings means stakeholder alignment. Roles naming it are mostly engineering, followed by go-to-market roles selling into the public sector, and cluster at generative-media companies.

How many New York AI companies are hiring for AI safety?

As of September 20, 2026, 7 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI safety in the description of at least one open role, across 10 postings (3 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.

What do roles that ask for AI safety pay in New York?

We do not publish a pay figure for AI safety yet. Fewer than eight New York postings naming it carry a distinct posted salary range, and below that number a median says more about two or three employers than about the market.

Which skills are asked for alongside AI safety?

In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with AI safety are Prompt engineering, Human-in-the-loop, MLOps, Evals, Anthropic. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.

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