Senior AI Safety & Biosecurity Research Scientist

1000scholars; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Basecamp Research seeks a Senior Research Scientist to advance AI safety and biosecurity in London. You will study capabilities and risks of biological AI systems, design evaluations, and develop safeguards across training and model deployment.

You will collaborate with genomics, sequence modelling, and computational biology teams, and have opportunities to publish. You will lead projects from initial questions to experiments, shaping research priorities and contributing to safer scientific

Qualifikationen

• You have a strong track record in machine learning, AI safety, computational biology, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to design experiments and evaluate model safety and risk.
• Ability to work with biological data and collaborate with experimental teams.

Aufgaben

• Design evaluations and red-teaming studies for biological AI capabilities and safety.
• Develop threat models grounded in biology and help translate results to practical risk assessments.
• Lead research projects from question to experiments and methods for the team to reuse.
• Publish research where appropriate and collaborate with the AI safety and biosecurity community.

Kenntnisse

Model evaluation

Interpretability

Robustness

Safeguards

Biological modelling

Ausbildung

PhD in a relevant field

Jobbeschreibung

Basecamp Research seeks a Senior Research Scientist to advance AI safety and biosecurity in London. You will study capabilities and risks of biological AI systems, design evaluations, and develop safeguards across training and model deployment.

You will collaborate with genomics, sequence modelling, and computational biology teams, and have opportunities to publish. You will lead projects from initial questions to experiments, shaping research priorities and contributing to safer scientific