Founding Research Engineer, AI Safety & Law Evaluations

Employia G&A Consulting GmbH; California; On-site; USD 185,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Founding team exposure

Job summary

Join a stealth AI safety lab focused on ensuring AI agents follow the law in real-world deployments. The Founding Research Engineer role is based in California and will advance research across evaluations, training environments, and runtime guardrails.

You will design experiments, build evaluation environments and training pipelines, and work with legal experts to ground the research in practical legal practice.

Qualifications

• Experience in applied research or ML engineering in fast-paced settings.
• Strong Python programming and ML framework knowledge.
• Background in AI safety, evaluations, or alignment research.

Responsibilities

• Design experiments and build evaluation environments and training pipelines.
• Collaborate with legal experts to ground research in real-world practice.
• Own projects end-to-end from research through publication.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

AI safety

Research experience

Experiment design

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Join a stealth AI safety lab focused on ensuring AI agents follow the law in real-world deployments. The Founding Research Engineer role is based in California and will advance research across evaluations, training environments, and runtime guardrails.

You will design experiments, build evaluation environments and training pipelines, and work with legal experts to ground the research in practical legal practice.