Founding Research Engineer — AI Safety & Frontier Models

Triage; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Triage is seeking a Founding Research Engineer in San Francisco to drive research for AI safety. You'll handle adversarial research, build training data infrastructure, and work on delivering effective detection systems. The role requires strong experience in LLM post-training and the ability to publish impactful research. With a competitive salary of $150K–$230K plus equity, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to AI alignment and security.

Qualifications

• Experience with reinforcement learning, DPO, instruction tuning, or adversarial training.
• Ability to write coordinated disclosures and documentation.
• Comfortable with quickly implementing new research.

Responsibilities

• Run adversarial research on frontier model behavior.
• Train and evaluate adversarially-trained models in production.
• Drive specific research bets on customer-specific safety policies.
• Publish coordinated disclosures and technical write-ups.

Skills

LLM post-training work

Technical opinions about misalignment

Strong writing skills

Ability to implement recent research quickly

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in ML research or applied AI

Job description

Triage is seeking a Founding Research Engineer in San Francisco to drive research for AI safety. You'll handle adversarial research, build training data infrastructure, and work on delivering effective detection systems. The role requires strong experience in LLM post-training and the ability to publish impactful research. With a competitive salary of $150K–$230K plus equity, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to AI alignment and security.