Research Engineer: Scalable AI Interpretability

Transluce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Transluce, a non-profit research lab in San Francisco, seeks scientists and engineers to advance AI oversight tools. You will help develop interpretable assistants and evaluate model behaviors, ensuring industry standards. Ideal candidates have experience in fine-tuning language models, excellent communication skills, and a curiosity for machine learning.

We offer a competitive salary range of $250,000 - $500,000 annually, in a collaborative, in-person work environment, with visa sponsorship available for international talents.

Qualifications

• Experience with fine-tuning language models, designing new architectures, and creating evaluations.
• Reliable results from good experimental design.
• Strong programming skills and ability to navigate trade-offs between speed and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and train scalable interpretability assistants.
• Create diverse evaluations that find undesirable model behaviors.
• Scale up training and inference pipelines for large models.

Skills

Fine-tuning language models

Experimental design

Strong programming ability

Communication skills

Job description

Transluce, a non-profit research lab in San Francisco, seeks scientists and engineers to advance AI oversight tools. You will help develop interpretable assistants and evaluate model behaviors, ensuring industry standards. Ideal candidates have experience in fine-tuning language models, excellent communication skills, and a curiosity for machine learning.

We offer a competitive salary range of $250,000 - $500,000 annually, in a collaborative, in-person work environment, with visa sponsorship available for international talents.