Frontier AI Safety & Evaluation Lead

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

Job summary

Alice (Formerly ActiveFence) seeks a Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead frontier AI safety research at the intersection of model evaluation, Trust & Safety, and adversarial robustness. You will design evaluation frameworks and benchmarks, including Agentic Safety Gyms, to measure capabilities and risks across generative AI modalities.

You will drive self‑initiated research, collaborate with top academic and industry partners, and represent the organization at major conferences, shaping the

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field with strong peer‑reviewed publications.
• Proven research record with top‑tier venues.
• Deep domain expertise in AI safety or Responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy new evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and Agentic Safety Gyms to measure model capabilities and safety.
• Develop adversarial prompting methods, red‑teaming, and behavioral suites to stress‑test LLMs, multimodal systems, and agents.
• Study risks including persuasion, manipulation, bias, and jailbreaking across multimodal and autonomous architectures.
• Lead collaborations with top academic and industry partners (e.g., OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, Nvidia).
• Represent the organization at conferences and safety summits, publishing groundbreaking findings.

Skills

Self-starting research

Academic publishing

Communication

Education

PhD in Computer Science/ML/AI Ethics or closely related

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Transformers

Job description

Alice (Formerly ActiveFence) seeks a Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead frontier AI safety research at the intersection of model evaluation, Trust & Safety, and adversarial robustness. You will design evaluation frameworks and benchmarks, including Agentic Safety Gyms, to measure capabilities and risks across generative AI modalities.

You will drive self‑initiated research, collaborate with top academic and industry partners, and represent the organization at major conferences, shaping the