Technical Investigator / Data Scientist - AI Safety

We are looking for an experienced technical investigator and/or data scientist to serve as the founding member of our AI Safety Intelligence, Investigations and Data Function. The ideal candidate combines subject matter expertise in at least one core area, such as foreign interference, fraud and/or other safety-related areas, with a solid data science background including experience building detection models for complex abuse. 

About ElevenLabs

We are a rapidly growing startup pioneering the development of cutting-edge AI voice models and products, including text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, audiobook creation, dubbing, and voice libraries.

We launched in January 2023 and have since reached over 1 million users. We are backed by many of the leading names in tech and AI, including Nat Fridman, Daniel Gross, Andreessen Horowitz, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe, Deepmind & Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, among others. 

With our latest Series-B funding at a $1.1B evaluation, we're entering an exciting phase of expansion and innovation. We’re seeking passionate and talented individuals to join us at this pivotal moment. As we push boundaries and achieve new milestones, we invite those driven by high aspirations and a hunger for significant impact to join our team. This is a rare chance to be an early member of a company on the rise, aiming to achieve extraordinary things. If this excites you, we want to meet you.

Join us in shaping the future of voice technology!

About the Role

As the founding member of our Threat Intelligence, Investigations and Data function in our AI Safety team, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to understand, detect and enforce against the nexus of complex adversarial threats and some of the most powerful tools in AI technology. 

In this role,  you will: 

• Build out our Threat Intelligence, Investigations and Data program from scratch, including designing and implementing intelligence collections and investigative workflows 

• Analyze the deployment of our products and services to identify how they may be misused or abused, with a particular focus on fraud & scams, impersonation and influence operations 

• Build out relationships with industry, vendors and the intelligence community to systematically ingest actionable external signal 

• Build out our proactive detection capabilities through conducting deep dive qualitative investigations as well as building our ML models to detect complex behavioral abuse, in collaboration with our safety engineering teams 

• Track evolution of threat actor TTPs to understand adversarial adaptation to our continuously improving mitigations; keep up to date with tech industry best practices   

• Collaborate with our product and safety teams to implement systematic changes to to our safety stack based on investigative outcomes  

• Willing to stretch into broader AI safety data science work by building out our AI safety metrics and dashboards

Who you are

• Each one of us is driven by the pursuit of excellence, supporting one another while taking ownership of our outcomes, and exploring uncharted territories. To thrive in this environment, you:

  • Are passionate about safe & broadly accessible AI in audio 

  • Are a strong communicator who is able to explain technical and security concepts to non-technical partners and is interested in working with a wide range of cross-functional teams  

  • Are a highly motivated and driven individual with a strong work ethic, including willingness to work nights and weekend as needed 

  • Strive for excellence in every aspect of work, consistently taking ownership of your outcomes and overdelivering on goals

  • Have a humble attitude and are eager to learn whatever it might take to help your team and our customers succeed

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience on a trust & safety or security team in a technical threat investigator and/or data science role 

• Experience leveraging external and internal signals and building models to combat complex abuse in areas such as fraud, cybersecurity and/or influence operations 

• Expertise in SQL, experience in Python and data analysis tools

Strong candidates will also have a mix of experience in: 

• Building out threat intelligence programs

• Operational design including building investigative workflows from the ground up

• Subject matter expertise in fraud, influence operations and/or cyberthreats 

• Experience mentoring a team of investigators and/or data scientists 

What we offer

At ElevenLabs, our biggest reward is shaping that future of voice technology. In addition, we offer:

• Competitive compensation package including stock options; we want you to have ownership in the company and share the successes that lie ahead. That’s why we offer early employees stock options as part of their compensation package.

• Remote-first; we look at who you are rather than where you live. We currently have offices in NYC, London and Warsaw. 

• Huge impact; you will be responsible for setting up a crucial function of AI safety in one of the world’s most exciting AI startups. 

• Extraordinary team; we favor ambitious, smart people striving for outsized impact. You’ll work on the state of the art surrounded by people with extraordinary skills and positive attitudes.

• Annual company off-sites; previous locations included Croatia, Portugal and Switzerland.