Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety Evaluations
Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior research scientist leading development of cutting-edge safety evaluations to quantify AI risks in high-impact domains (e.g., CBRN, Cyber) within Faculty's AI safety research group. Focuses on original research, methodology advancement, and external scientific leadership.
Responsibilities
- Leading the development of novel safety evaluations in high-impact domains such as CBRN and Cyber to quantify emerging risks.
- Executing original technical research in AI safety evaluation methods, taking ideas from concept to publication.
- Shaping the R&D agenda by identifying strategic opportunities to advance safety evaluation methodology across Faculty and the broader ecosystem.
- Contributing thought leadership and deep technical expertise to client delivery projects, evaluation work, and red-teaming for frontier labs.
- Representing Faculty’s scientific leadership through active external engagement with the global research community, frontier labs, and government stakeholders.
Qualifications
- A track record of owning research end-to-end—from identifying novel problems to publication.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI evaluations or benchmarks, with ability to reason about construct validity and mitigate confounds.
- Expertise in red-teaming, adversarial testing, jailbreaking, indirect prompt injection, and assessing robustness of model safeguards.
- Strong foundational skills in experimental design, statistical analysis, and uncertainty quantification (including Bayesian methods).
- Deep knowledge of language models, generative AI architectures, training methodologies, and safety mitigation techniques.
- Solid Python proficiency and the engineering discipline to build robust, reproducible research.
Skills
Required:Research project ownershipAI safety evaluations designExperiment designRed-teaming / adversarial testingPython proficiency
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