Machine Learning Researcher

QWNTL Labs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 540,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Equity

Job summary

QWNTL Labs in Palo Alto is seeking researchers who have published work in frontier AI alignment and model interpretability. The team values curiosity, unconventional paths, and yielding results that look strange but reveal real insights.

We offer a rare opportunity to tackle activation-level steering, symbolic–neural blending, and alignment enforcement, with substantial equity and visa sponsorship where possible.

Qualifications

• Published researcher with work in AI alignment or related fields.
• Comfort with unconventional paths and arcane topics; prefers outcomes that are surprising yet interpretable.

Skills

Activation-level steering

Symbolic–neural blending

Alignment enforcement

Job description

We are a small lab working on a problem we won’t name here. It sits at the seam between what models compute and what we can make them mean. If it’s your problem, you’ll know within a sentence of us telling you.

We’re looking for researchers who have lived in one or more of these:

• Activation‑level steering
• Symbolic–neural blended systems
• Alignment Enforcement

You should have published. We care less about venue than about whether the work was true, whether you saw something real and made it legible to others.

You are comfortable in the arcane corners, suspicious of tidy explanations, and happiest when the result is strange enough that no one else would have looked there.

$600K plus meaningful equity. Visa sponsorship where we can.

Tell us the strangest true thing you’ve found.