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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 November 4, 2026 · refreshed daily

companies naming it
8 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it
13open roles naming it
of those based in NYC
8of 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

8 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI safety in at least one open role today, across 13 postings. 8 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

Engineering roles make up 54% of the postings that name it, with the rest spread across other functions.

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.

Companies naming AI safety, daily

Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 47 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.

05108Sep 20Nov 4Sep 20: 7 companiesSep 21: 7 companiesSep 22: 7 companiesSep 23: 7 companiesSep 24: 6 companiesSep 25: 6 companiesSep 26: 6 companiesSep 27: 6 companiesSep 28: 5 companiesSep 29: 5 companiesSep 30: 5 companiesOct 1: 5 companiesOct 2: 5 companiesOct 3: 5 companiesOct 4: 5 companiesOct 5: 5 companiesOct 6: 5 companiesOct 7: 5 companiesOct 8: 5 companiesOct 9: 5 companiesOct 10: 5 companiesOct 11: 5 companiesOct 12: 5 companiesOct 13: 5 companiesOct 14: 5 companiesOct 15: 5 companiesOct 16: 5 companiesOct 17: 5 companiesOct 18: 5 companiesOct 19: 5 companiesOct 20: 5 companiesOct 21: 5 companiesOct 22: 5 companiesOct 23: 5 companiesOct 24: 5 companiesOct 25: 5 companiesOct 26: 5 companiesOct 27: 6 companiesOct 28: 6 companiesOct 29: 8 companiesOct 30: 8 companiesOct 31: 8 companiesNov 1: 8 companiesNov 2: 8 companiesNov 3: 8 companiesNov 4: 8 companies
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2026-09-276
2026-09-285
2026-09-295
2026-09-305
2026-10-015
2026-10-025
2026-10-035
2026-10-045
2026-10-055
2026-10-065
2026-10-075
2026-10-085
2026-10-095
2026-10-105
2026-10-115
2026-10-125
2026-10-135
2026-10-145
2026-10-155
2026-10-165
2026-10-175
2026-10-185
2026-10-195
2026-10-205
2026-10-215
2026-10-225
2026-10-235
2026-10-245
2026-10-255
2026-10-265
2026-10-276
2026-10-286
2026-10-298
2026-10-308
2026-10-318
2026-11-018
2026-11-028
2026-11-038
2026-11-048

Who names it

Open roles naming AI safety, by company.

  • Anterior4
  • ElevenLabs3
  • Comet1
  • EvolutionIQ1
  • Ramp1
  • Reality Defender1
  • Runway1
  • Sixfold1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

  • Engineering7
  • Operations2
  • GTM2
  • Research1
  • Finance & Legal1
  • Mid10
  • Manager1
  • Staff/Principal1
  • Senior1

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 8 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 November 4, 2026, 8 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI safety in the description of at least one open role, across 13 postings (8 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, Multimodal AI, Evals, Go, 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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