Safety Research Scholar - Human Frontier Labs

Job summary

Responsibilities

Projects are mentor-guided. By default, you will be given a list of research proposals and match you with one based on your research interests and background. You’ll meet weekly with a Scale researcher who sets the direction and gives feedback, and you will drive the day-to-day work.

• Own research end to end: Turn a high-level safety question into hypotheses, baselines, and controlled experiments, and produce work that others can inspect and build on.
• Build the measurement: Implement and debug evaluation harnesses, agent environments, datasets, monitoring methods, or post-training experiments.
• Exercise research judgment: Identify confounds, separate what a model can do from what it tends to do, make sense of negative results, and decide what to try next without…
• Make the work legible: Produce reproducible code, experiment logs, analysis, and precise technical writing. External outputs, where appropriate, remain subject to research…
• Location: Remote within the United States, including California and New York