Frontier AI Risk Analyst — Shape Safer Models

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in Singapore seeks an experienced AI Safety professional to turn ambiguous concerns into clear, testable problems and evaluation cases. You will collaborate with researchers and product managers to define risk mechanisms, boundaries, and benchmarks, translating risk definitions into evaluation metrics and thresholds.

We welcome candidates from research, behavioral science, experimentation, risk, quality, or related backgrounds with strong problem-solving and measurement skills; prior

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of professional or research experience in an analytical, research, strategy, evaluation, or similarly problem-solving-oriented role.
• Strong examples of end-to-end / 0-1 ownership of an ambiguous problem: you independently clarified what the problem was, gathered the evidence needed to understand it, and turned it into a concrete output others could use—such as a taxonomy, metric, experiment, test framework, evaluation set, decision rule, or research recommendation.
• Hands-on research or analysis experience using raw data, cases, user research, literature, experiments, or other primary evidence.
• Strong written and verbal reasoning: able to explain what you concluded, what evidence supports it, what remains uncertain, and why you chose one approach over alternatives.

Responsibilities

• Work with researchers and product managers to research emerging AI safety risks using industry research, academic work, real-world cases, and expert input
• Define risk mechanisms, scope, boundaries, and representative failure modes
• Translate risk definitions into evaluation cases, benchmarks, metrics, and thresholds
• Run exploratory analyses, pilots, and lightweight experiments
• Review raw cases and evaluation results, identify failure patterns, and iterate the methodology

Skills

Analytical thinking

Research experience

End-to-end ownership

Problem solving

Written and verbal reasoning

Job description

ByteDance in Singapore seeks an experienced AI Safety professional to turn ambiguous concerns into clear, testable problems and evaluation cases. You will collaborate with researchers and product managers to define risk mechanisms, boundaries, and benchmarks, translating risk definitions into evaluation metrics and thresholds.

We welcome candidates from research, behavioral science, experimentation, risk, quality, or related backgrounds with strong problem-solving and measurement skills; prior