Safety Engineer - Abuse and Fraud

Exa is hiring a Safety Engineer - Abuse and Fraud in San Francisco, United States. It pays $180k-$350k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Exa.

Level's read on this job

Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Cursor.
Level lists 65 other open roles at Exa.
The role was posted in the last few days.

AI in this role

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Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.

As a Safety Engineer - Abuse and Fraud, you will be thinking about Exa’s platform security, abuse of Exa as a platform, and safety in content. You will ensure that users are abiding by the terms of service and look at content moderation of text and multimodal.

What you'll do

Build fraud detection systems
Be responsible for overall moderation
Create our strategy within Exa, making sure our systems are compliant
Interact with other stakeholders in different parts of the org, and content construction

What we're looking for

Experience in fraud and moderation systems
Experience in content moderation

Bonus

Any kind of experience in a large web property

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

How we rate this

Safety Engineer - Abuse and Fraud at Exa rates 42 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Safety Engineer - Abuse and Fraud is an open job at Exa.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The listed salary is $180k-$350k a year.
The role is based in San Francisco, California.
The job was posted on November 12, 2026.
Applications are handled by Exa. Apply on Exa

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