Research Associate: Detecting Hidden Dangers in Frontier AI

Imperial Enterprise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career support for researchers

Salaries above market

Generous pension

43 days off a year

Job summary

Imperial College London seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Safety & Alignment lab. The role is fully funded to advance research on detecting unverbalized dangerous capabilities in frontier models, with emphasis on externalized reasoning oversight.

You will publish in top conferences and journals, mentor PhD/MSc students, and contribute to lab activities while developing novel algorithms and implementing ideas.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in CS/math/physics.
• Publications in top venues (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/ACL/etc.).
• Experience with frontier models and CoT monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms to detect unverbalized dangerous capabilities in frontier models.
• Conduct independent and collaborative research within the group.
• Publish results at top-tier conferences and journals.
• Implement research ideas and contribute to frontier model projects.
• Mentor PhD and MSc students.

Skills

PhD in CS/Math/Physics

Pytorch

Model checking

Monitoring

Education

PhD in Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics or related

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Imperial College London seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Safety & Alignment lab. The role is fully funded to advance research on detecting unverbalized dangerous capabilities in frontier models, with emphasis on externalized reasoning oversight.

You will publish in top conferences and journals, mentor PhD/MSc students, and contribute to lab activities while developing novel algorithms and implementing ideas.