Lead AI Safety Researcher for Frontier Models

Alice

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Alice seeks a visionary Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead state‑of‑the‑art research at the intersection of frontier models, Trust & Safety, evaluation, and adversarial robustness. You will bridge academic rigor with practical AI safety challenges, drive self‑initiated work, and build safety benchmarks across Generative AI modalities.

You will collaborate with top labs, academic institutions, and enterprise partners.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS), ML, AI Ethics, Social Data Science or closely related field.
  • Proven portfolio of peer‑reviewed publications and conference presentations in top venues.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and safety gyms to measure capabilities, vulnerabilities, and alignment across risk domains.
  • Develop adversarial prompting, red‑teaming, and behavioral suites for LLMs, multimodal systems, and AI agents.
  • Investigate safety risks including persuasion, manipulation, bias, jailbreaking across multimodal and autonomous architectures.
  • Lead collaborative research with external academic labs and industry partners.
  • Represent Alice as a thought leader at conferences and industry events; publish groundbreaking research.

Skills

Frontier AI safety
RAI
Model evaluation
Benchmark design
Cross-disciplinary

Education

PhD in a relevant field

Tools

Python
PyTorch
Transformers

Job description

Alice seeks a visionary Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead state‑of‑the‑art research at the intersection of frontier models, Trust & Safety, evaluation, and adversarial robustness. You will bridge academic rigor with practical AI safety challenges, drive self‑initiated work, and build safety benchmarks across Generative AI modalities.

You will collaborate with top labs, academic institutions, and enterprise partners.

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