Applied Research Scientist - AI Safety & Alignment

Fleet AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Fleet AI, Inc. is seeking an Applied Research Scientist to design robust reward systems, implement comprehensive telemetry, and build production-grade systems that align agents with safety guarantees.

You will work with data and model trajectories and collaborate with safety researchers to co-design new RL environments for downstream alignment evaluation. The role focuses on rigorous oversight, evaluating misbehavior, and extending assessment across diverse domains, with strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Willingness to inspect examples and trajectories, question labels and graders.
• Strong practical engineering skills to build scalable testing systems.
• Proven empirical experience in alignment, model behavior, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design reward systems and telemetry pipelines for production-scale RL tasks.
• Build production oversight systems to trace misbehavior across Fleet evaluations.
• Design safety benchmarks and conduct external benchmark analyses.
• Collaborate with frontier labs to co-design new RL environments and tasks.

Skills

Data inspection

Engineering skills

Empirical alignment experience

Job description

Fleet AI, Inc. is seeking an Applied Research Scientist to design robust reward systems, implement comprehensive telemetry, and build production-grade systems that align agents with safety guarantees.

You will work with data and model trajectories and collaborate with safety researchers to co-design new RL environments for downstream alignment evaluation. The role focuses on rigorous oversight, evaluating misbehavior, and extending assessment across diverse domains, with strong emphasis on