Research Lead, AI Safety & Pre-Training

AISafety; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute focused on safety and beneficial AI. The Research Lead will develop and steer work on pre-training safety, shaping models’ capabilities and internal representations at their source.

Initial focus includes capability control to remove harmful capabilities while preserving benign ones, with validation at scale and potential applications to prevent misuse of open-weight models.

Responsibilities

• You’ll build and lead the team, set its research direction, mentor Members of Technical Staff to scale your vision, and remain hands-on enough to write code and run experiments yourself.
• This role offers high autonomy in an impact-driven environment, pursuing empirically grounded, scalable ML safety research.
• Focus on pre-training safety, data filtering at scale, and responsible deployment strategies.

Job description

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute focused on safety and beneficial AI. The Research Lead will develop and steer work on pre-training safety, shaping models’ capabilities and internal representations at their source.

Initial focus includes capability control to remove harmful capabilities while preserving benign ones, with validation at scale and potential applications to prevent misuse of open-weight models.