Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are looking for research engineers to build the safety and oversight mechanisms that govern how our models handle biological knowledge. As a bio safety researcher, you will spend your time: designing and running capability evaluations against frontier models, generating and curating training…

• Design, build, and run capability evaluations to assess what new models can do in the biological domain, and turn results into concrete deployment recommendations
• Develop training and evaluation datasets for our safety classifiers, working with internal and external threat modeling experts to ground them in realistic risk
• Train, tune, and iterate on safety classifiers with ML engineers, optimizing jointly for adversarial robustness and low false-positive rates
• Build the tooling and pipelines that make evaluation and classifier development fast and repeatable
• Analyze classifier and eval performance against production traffic, identify gaps, and prioritize improvements

What they're looking for

• Strong proficiency in Python, and extensive background in scientific programming and data analysis skills
• Excellent grasp of ML fundamentals and an ability to rapidly adopt ML development practices
• Excellent knowledge of modern biology across both measurement and engineering: high-throughput assays and functional characterization, as well as gene synthesis, genome editing…
• Ability to build and maintain your own tooling rather than relying on others to implement your ideas
• Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions from noisy results

Tech stack

• Python