Research Scientist focuses on agent robustness, developing tests, exploits, and mitigations for safe AI agents. Requires 3+ years ML experience, RL techniques like RLHF/DPO, and published research in generative AI.
197k – 247k/yr
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About the role
Responsibilities
Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on safety, risk factors, and benchmarking methodologies.
Design and build harnesses to test AI agents’ tendency to take harmful actions when pressured or tricked.
Design and build exploits and mitigations for failure modes arising from agent affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use.
Characterize and design mitigations for failure modes or risks in systems with multiple interacting AI agents.
Requirements
Commitment to promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments.
Practical experience conducting technical research collaboratively, including building agent scaffolding, designing evaluation harnesses, and prototyping research ideas.
Experience with post-training and RL techniques such as RLHF, DPO, GRPO.
Track record of published research in machine learning, particularly generative AI.
At least 3 years of experience addressing sophisticated ML problems.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience with agent evaluation frameworks such as SWE-bench, WebArena, OSWorld, Inspect.
Experience with red-teaming, prompt injection, or adversarial testing of AI systems.
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