Senior Responsible AI Researcher AI

1752vc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

1752vc is seeking a visionary Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead state-of-the-art research at the intersection of frontier models, Trust & Safety, model evaluation, and adversarial robustness. You will design evaluation methodologies and build safety benchmarks across Text, Image, Multimodal systems, and Autonomous Agents.

As part of the role, you will lead new frontier evaluation projects every six weeks, drive self-initiated research, and establish evaluation frameworks with external

Qualifications

• Ownership & Self-Starter Attitude: Proven track record of self-initiating research projects, bringing in external partnerships, and shaping technical vision
• Communication & Engagement: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, executives, and research peers
• Cross-Disciplinary Versatility: Ability to operate comfortably across technical data science, social science paradigms, and product execution

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy new evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and "Agentic Safety Gyms" to measure model capabilities, vulnerabilities, and alignment across diverse risk domains (e.g., Hate Speech, Misinformation, Elections Preparedness, IP/Copyright, Child Safety)
• Develop advanced adversarial prompting methodologies, red‑teaming strategies, and behavioral suites to stress‑test Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal systems, and AI Agents
• Investigate emerging safety risks, including model persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy, and agentic safety

Skills

Self-starter

Communication

Cross-disciplinary

Job description

As part of this role, you will be responsible for leading new frontier evaluation and benchmarking projects every six weeks. Successful candidates are expected to drive self-initiated research, design evaluation methodologies for emerging risks (e.g., persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy, agentic safety), and build safety benchmarks across Generative AI modalities (Text, Image, Multimodal, and Autonomous Agents). If you're creative and driven to secure the future of AI, we want to hear from you! Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

• Ownership & Self-Starter Attitude: Proven track record of self-initiating research projects, bringing in external partnerships, and shaping technical vision
• Communication & Engagement: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, executives, and research peers
• Cross-Disciplinary Versatility: Ability to operate comfortably across technical data science, social science paradigms, and product execution

We are seeking a visionary, highly accomplished Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead state-of-the‑art research initiatives at the intersection of frontier models, Trust & Safety (T&S), model evaluation, and adversarial robustness.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for leading new frontier evaluation and benchmarking projects every six weeks. Successful candidates are expected to drive self-initiated research, design evaluation methodologies for emerging risks (e.g., persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy, agentic safety), and build safety benchmarks across Generative AI modalities (Text, Image, Multimodal, and Autonomous Agents).

• Design, build, and deploy new evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and "Agentic Safety Gyms" to measure model capabilities, vulnerabilities, and alignment across diverse risk domains (e.g., Hate Speech, Misinformation, Elections Preparedness, IP/Copyright, Child Safety).
• Develop advanced adversarial prompting methodologies, red‑teaming strategies, and behavioral suites to stress‑test Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal systems, and AI Agents.
• Investigate emerging safety risks, including model persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy,...