Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety
Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Senior Research Scientist at Faculty leading original technical research in AI safety, shaping research agenda, contributing to evaluation and red-teaming efforts, and translating research into practical mitigation strategies and tooling for frontier labs and government stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Leading original technical research in AI safety, steering projects from initial research question to high-impact publication.
- Shaping the research agenda by identifying high-impact projects that balance scientific rigour with real-world relevance.
- Contributing thought leadership and deep technical expertise to support wider evaluation and red-teaming efforts.
- Supporting our positioning as a global leader through active external engagement with frontier labs and government stakeholders.
- Developing robust, reproducible research code and engineering infrastructure to accelerate our scientific discovery.
- Collaborating with cross-functional safety teams to translate fundamental research into practical mitigation strategies.
Qualifications
- Strong track record in AI research, evidenced by publications or equivalent experience, alongside the ability to tackle open, unsolved problems.
- Capability to own research end-to-end, moving independently from framing novel problems to generating high-quality research artifacts.
- Passion for technical AI safety, whether developed in academia, industry labs, or evaluation roles.
- Deep knowledge of language models and generative AI architectures, including white-box techniques beyond API-level access.
- Strong foundation in machine learning fundamentals, particularly in robustness, explainability, or uncertainty estimation.
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and the Python skills required to build robust research tooling.
Skills
Required:AI safety researchResearch project ownershipPublications / research outputsLanguage models & generative AI architecturesRobustness, explainability, uncertainty estimationPyTorch
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