<p>Please note that candidates for this position must be based in the Salt Lake CIty metro area and be willing to commute 2-3 days a week when this role transitions to a hybrid schedule in 2026. We're excited to be growing our presence in SLC!</p> <p>Reporting to the VP of Clinical Products, the AI Safety Lead will be responsible for the design, delivery, and operationalisation of a state-of-the-art, mental health clinical safety function and platform for Spring Health's various products. This is a full time, hybrid position that is based out of San Francisco, CA.</p> <p>What you'll be doing:</p> <ul> <li>Define and continuously update our AI Safety Plan inclusive of regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act, U.S. Executive Order 14110, NIST AI RMF 1.0, ISO/IEC 42001 requirements, and others </li><li>Establish and enforce fairness, bias, and explainability standard </li><li>Build monitoring pipelines for drift, harmful content, disparate impact, and other vectors of inequity </li><li>Architect safe-by-design ML systems (LLM guardrails, retrieval-augmented generation, ranking pipelines) </li><li>Lead design reviews, threat-modeling, and red-team exercises </li><li>Define and own key risk indicators (KRIs) and SLOs for safety </li><li>Partner with Clinical, Legal, Privacy, Security, and Product to translate regulation into engineering requirements </li><li>Represent Spring Health in external standards bodies and audits </li></ul> <p>What success looks like in this role:</p> <ul> <li>All high-risk AI services/products documented and compliance-mapped; coverage by automated safety tests; Safety SLOs integrated into CI/CD </li><li>Successful third-party audit and/or public disclosures demonstrating conformance to relevant AI standards and/or higher internal standards </li><li>LLM guardrails + rec-sys filters shipped to prod, Automated fairness tests run in CI/CD </li><li>Safety SLOs defined and met by the entire engineering team </li><li>Spring Health recognized in at least one industry forum for published case study on mental-health AI safety </li><li>Spring Health recognized in at least one academic forum on mental-health AI safety </li></ul> <p>What we expect from you:</p> <ul> <li>10+ yrs building and shipping production ML/AI systems; 3+ yrs in a formal AI/ML safety, security, or compliance roleDeep knowledge of Generative AI (LLMs, diffusion), recommender and ranking algorithms, and their failure modes </li><li>Hands-on expertise with: </li><li>Responsible-AI toolkits (e.g., Fairlearn, OpenAI Eval frameworks, LlamaGuard) </li><li>Robustness & red-team testing, adversarial ML, privacy-enhancing techniques </li><li>Distributed training / serving stacks (PyTorch, JAX, Ray, K8s, Triton) </li><li>Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to teams of 5-15 engineers with experience in delivery execution, mentoring, and hiring support </li><li>Excellent written & verbal communication; able to brief executives and regulators </li><li>Demonstrated success translating EU AI Act or comparable regulation into technical controls and audit artifacts </li><li>Prior experience with safety evaluations for multimodal or RLHF systems </li><li>(preferred) Master's or PhD in CS, ML, Statistics, or a related discipline </li><li>(preferred) Contributor to relevant open-source safety or fairness projects </li><li>(preferred) Experience participating in NIST, IEEE, or BSI AI standards working group </li></ul> <p>The target base salary range for this position is $200,800 - $245,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.</p> <p>Benefits provided by Spring Health:</p> <p>Note: We have even more benefits than listed here and below, your recruiter will provide more in-depth information as you continue in the interview process. Benefits are subject to individual plan requirements and eligibility criteria.</p> <ul> <li>Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type. </li><li>Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning </li><li>A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents. </li><li>We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays. </li><li>At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents. </li><li>Access to Noom, a weight management program-based in psychology, that's tailored to your unique needs and goals. </li><li>Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses. </li><li>Access to Wellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription </li><li>Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care </li><li>Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year. </li><li>$200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes. </li></ul>