Data Scientist - AI Safety

What we offer

• Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
• Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
• Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
• Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
• Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.

About the role

We're looking for a Data Scientist to take ownership of the datasets and evaluation workflows that underpin our AI Safety work. You'll turn real-world product data into reliable, well-structured datasets for training and evaluating models, and help build the processes and infrastructure to continuously assess how those models perform in production.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of data science, ML, AI safety, and policy. You'll work closely with safety researchers, engineers, and policy specialists to translate complex safety requirements into practical data and evaluation systems - starting hands-on with collection, analysis, and labelling, then building the methodologies, contributor networks, and quality standards that let this work scale.

In this role, you will:

• Own safety datasets end-to-end: collection, cleaning, labelling, quality control, versioning, and readiness for training and evaluation.
• Translate safety policy into clear, consistent labelling and evaluation criteria, working closely with policy specialists.
• Design and manage labelling processes, including sourcing, onboarding, and overseeing external contributors to a high quality bar.
• Build evaluation workflows for models in production, using real-world data to track performance and surface issues.
• Develop lightweight Python/SQL pipelines and tooling to make data work faster and reproducible, partnering with ML engineers on what "training-ready" looks like.

Who you are

• 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.

Bonus points

• 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.

Location

This role is based in London, where you'll work closely with our AI Safety and Policy teams.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.