Technical Staff - AI Safety Research & Systems

Zero RFI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

P-Zero Research is seeking a technically versatile staff member to own a research project end to end, focusing on RSI capabilities and large-scale experiments. You will formulate hypotheses and turn them into practical experiments that push the boundaries of AI safety research.

We value strong software engineering, rapid iteration, and clear written communication. London or the San Francisco Bay Area are preferred; exceptional candidates may work remotely with core-hour overlap.

Qualifications

• Excellent strategic taste and research taste: you can prioritise effectively in domains with weak feedback loops.
• High agency and conscientiousness
• Comfort with ambiguity and adapting fast
• Strong, fast software engineering skills and concise written communication
• High attention to detail: you actually read the datasets
• Alignment with P-Zero's mission to improve the long-term trajectory of AI

Responsibilities

• Conduct ambitious experiments to measure automated AI R&D capabilities
• Identify new threat vectors from automated AI R&D and how to measure them
• Run scrappy prototypes and rapidly iterate
• Build robust, production-grade infrastructure
• Update forecasters, policy makers and the AI safety community about the risks of RSI

Skills

Software engineering

Written communication

Strategic thinking

Adaptability

Job description

P-Zero Research is seeking a technically versatile staff member to own a research project end to end, focusing on RSI capabilities and large-scale experiments. You will formulate hypotheses and turn them into practical experiments that push the boundaries of AI safety research.

We value strong software engineering, rapid iteration, and clear written communication. London or the San Francisco Bay Area are preferred; exceptional candidates may work remotely with core-hour overlap.