Research Scientist, Frontier AI Safety & Evaluation

Neo Research; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 190,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Remote-friendly setup

Job summary

Neo Research in Singapore or remote is seeking a Research Scientist to identify important questions and own research projects end-to-end, from initial hypothesis and experimental design through analysis and publication.

You will develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks in frontier models, study hard-to-observe behaviours, and collaborate with research engineers to produce robust, reproducible experiments and publish findings for researchers, developers, and

Qualifications

• Track record of original research in AI safety or a closely adjacent field.
• Deep familiarity with frontier model behaviour and elicitation methodology.
• Ability to define a research agenda and drive it to concrete, published output.
• Strong technical writing.
• Comfortable collaborating closely with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own research projects end-to-end: identify important questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, analyse results, and publish the work.
• Develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks, including evaluation awareness, sandbagging, dishonesty, sycophancy, and unsafe behaviour in agentic settings.
• Study behaviours difficult to observe directly, including long-horizon failure modes and cases where models may conceal relevant behaviour.
• Investigate whether existing alignment and evaluation methods continue to work across different frontier-model ecosystems.
• Work closely with research engineers to turn research ideas into robust, reproducible experiments.
• Contribute to Neo’s broader research agenda and communicate findings to researchers, model developers, and safety institutions.

Skills

Original research

AI safety

Technical writing

Collaboration with engineers

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Python

Jupyter

Job description

Neo Research in Singapore or remote is seeking a Research Scientist to identify important questions and own research projects end-to-end, from initial hypothesis and experimental design through analysis and publication.

You will develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks in frontier models, study hard-to-observe behaviours, and collaborate with research engineers to produce robust, reproducible experiments and publish findings for researchers, developers, and