# Senior Research Engineer, Safety at Decagon

- Company: Decagon
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Index and a16z.
- Company website: https://decagon.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/decagon/aa6c2bf9-cba1-47f7-b268-bcbba41080c0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/decagon-senior-research-engineer-safety/

## About the role

As a Research Engineer focused on Safety, you’ll be responsible for making Decagon’s AI agents safe, reliable, and controllable, from evaluation through production. You’ll identify real-world failure modes and build the models, evaluations, and safeguards that prevent them. We’re looking for strong engineers who want to advance applied AI safety in production. People here own their work end-to-end, ship real improvements, and are trusted to make high-impact technical decisions.

Tags: Engineering