Become an AI Safety Engineer: Red-Teaming, Evals and Alignment Roles in 2026

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• What you need to know AI safety engineering is, right now, one of the fastest-growing and hardest-to-hire roles in the whole industry.
• Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI are all scaling their empirical safety, evaluation and alignment teams, and the demand is running well ahead of the supply of people who can do the work.
• The unusual thing about this field — and the reason it is such a good bet for a determined builder — is that it hires….