Research Engineer, AI Safety & Evaluations

TTN Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

TTN Talent in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on software engineer passionate about AI alignment, safety, and security. You will own technical projects end to end, from idea through implementation, testing and refinement.

You will build environments and evaluation tasks to identify misaligned or unreliable model behavior, and improve tooling to isolate, measure, and refine those behaviors. Salary on offer is $200,000 to $400,000.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with focus on AI alignment, safety or security.
• Experience with Python, agent tooling, evals, RL environments or similar technical infrastructure.
• Ability to independently own technical projects end to end, from idea through implementation, testing and refinement.

Responsibilities

• Build environments and evaluation tasks to identify misaligned or unreliable model behaviour, and improve software used to isolate, measure and refine those behaviours.

Job description

• Do you have strong hands-on software engineering experience and a serious interest in AI alignment, AI safety or security?
• Have you built, evaluated or directed LLM agents while they perform complex technical tasks?
• Can you independently own technical projects end to end, from initial idea through implementation, testing and refinement?
• Do you have experience with Python, agent tooling, evals, RL environments or similar technical infrastructure?

If you answer yes to all of the above, then this confidential role could be the one for you.

This is a rare opportunity to join a small, fast-growing AI company working on technical alignment and evaluation problems for frontier models. The successful candidate will independently build environments and evaluation tasks that help identify misaligned or unreliable model behaviour, while improving the software used to isolate, measure and refine those behaviours.

The role is based in San Francisco. Salary on offer is $200,000 to $400,000