Senior AI Enforcement Analyst, Safety Operations

Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

This role sits on the Safety Enforcement Team. The team’s mission is to fairly and consistently remove violative content, educate Reddit users and internal teams on Content Policy, and use technology to improve enforcement at scale. Reddit is hiring a founding AI Operations Specialist for a greenfield initiative to influence safety and automated enforcement across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Own Automated Enforcement Quality: serve as a strategic owner for enforcement outcomes across AI-driven systems; diagnose underperformance and recommend go/no-go decisions for production models.
• Translate Policy Into Models: act as the primary “policy-to-model” translator by crafting prompts, defining evaluation criteria, and curating high-quality datasets ("golden sets") to teach models to distinguish between contextual debate and policy violations.
• Guide Model Evolution: monitor enforcement performance over time, identify concept drift, policy changes, or emerging threats that require retraining, prompt updates, or evaluation redesign.
• Surface Blind Spots: develop monitoring strategies for niche communities, edge cases, and emerging behaviors to ensure enforcement systems reflect Reddit’s diversity and complexity.
• Safeguard Model Integrity: flag risks, escalate incidents, and recommend rollbacks or mitigations when automated systems fall below quality or safety thresholds, partnering with ML and Product stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, with hands-on exposure to automated or scaled enforcement systems.
• AI-literate with an understanding of how LLM-based and classifier-driven enforcement systems behave in production, including strengths, limitations, and failure modes; able to evaluate errors, interpret metrics, and connect model behavior back to policy intent.
• Familiarity with AI safety concepts such as evaluation design, data quality, labeling strategies, and continuous improvement loops, applied operationally.
• Experience in SQL and/or Python is preferred; ability to use data to investigate issues, assess tradeoffs, and inform decisions.
• Ability to move fluidly between technical discussions with ML partners and strategic alignment with Policy, Legal, and Product leaders.
• Experience with content moderation, scaled enforcement programs, policy interpretation, and real-time incident response in complex environments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• 401(k) with employer match
• Global benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
• Family planning support and gender-affirming care
• Mental health & coaching benefits
• Flexible vacation & paid volunteer time off
• Generous paid parental leave

Pay Transparency

• Base salary range (US-based): $167,500 - $234,500 USD
• In addition to base salary, eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units; depending on position, may be eligible to receive a commission.

Other Details

• Location: Remote — United States
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Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations in the application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.