Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment

Job summary

Responsibilities

You want to build and run elegant and thorough machine learning experiments to help us understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. You care about making AI helpful, honest, and harmless, and are interested in the ways that this could be challenging in the context of human-level…

• Scalable Oversight: Developing techniques to keep highly capable models helpful and honest, even as they surpass human-level intelligence in various domains.
• AI Control: Creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios.
• Alignment Stress-testing: Creating model organisms of misalignment to improve our empirical understanding of how alignment failures might arise.
• Automated Alignment Research: Building and aligning a system that can speed up & improve alignment research.
• Alignment Assessments: Understanding and documenting the highest-stakes and most concerning emerging properties of models through pre-deployment alignment and welfare assessments…

Tech stack

• Python
• Kubernetes