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Researcher, Alignment

Designs and implements experiments for AI alignment research, focusing on scalable solutions for human intent following, risk evaluation, model robustness, and oversight methods in complex scenarios. Requires PhD-level research experience and strong ML engineering skills.

250k – 445k/yr
HybridAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evaluate alignment capabilities that are subjective, context-dependent, and hard to measure.
  • Design evaluations to reliably measure risks and alignment with human intent and values.
  • Build tools and evaluations to study and test model robustness in different situations.
  • Design experiments to understand laws for how alignment scales as a function of compute, data, lengths of context and action, as well as resources of adversaries.
  • Design and evaluate new Human-AI-interaction paradigms and scalable oversight methods that redefine how humans interact with, understand, and supervise our models.
  • Train models to be calibrated on correctness and risk.
  • Design novel approaches for using AI in alignment research.

Requirements

  • Team player – willing to do a variety of tasks that move the team forward.
  • PhD or equivalent experience in research in computer science, computational science, data science, cognitive science, or similar fields.
  • Strong engineering skills, particularly in designing and optimizing large-scale machine learning systems (e.g., PyTorch).
  • Deep understanding of the science behind alignment algorithms and techniques.
  • Can develop data visualization or data collection interfaces (e.g., TypeScript, Python).
  • Enjoy fast-paced, collaborative, and cutting-edge research environments.
  • Want to focus on developing AI models that are trustworthy, safe, and reliable, especially in high-stakes scenarios.

Skills

PyTorchTypeScriptPythonMachine LearningAlignment ResearchScalable OversightHuman-Ai InteractionData Visualization

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