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Oath Technologies - Research Engineer, Tools & Infrastructure

Convergent Research· Oath Technologies
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Berkeley, CA$250k - $385kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Oath Technologies is building tools for oversight of advanced AIs using formal verification. The role focuses on developing novel formal methods tools and applying them at scale to AI oversight problems, with emphasis on design, lifting, and audit tooling and verified agent containment.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute directly to Oath's research goals: building tools, applying them to real systems, and iterating based on what works.
  • Help scale Oath's tools to large, long-running experiments intended to map the frontiers of AI oversight capabilities.
  • Take deep ownership of problems, from framing the question, to overcoming obstacles, to delivering a working solution.
  • Collaborate closely with a small, high-context team, including significant use of AI agents as part of the day-to-day workflow.
  • Help set technical direction as the team and its workstreams grow, not just execute someone else's plan.
  • Document your work and reasoning so it doesn't stay trapped in one person's head.

Qualifications

  • Experience building tools engineers actually adopt: IDE integrations, language servers, CLI tooling, build-system integration.
  • Experience with AI-assisted developer workflows, agent scaffolding, or applied AI/ML engineering.
  • Comfort picking up formal methods concepts on the job, even without prior depth in the area.
  • Experience working in research and/or engineering teams delivering ambitious results.
  • An ability to learn quickly, build quickly, and pivot when necessary.

Skills

Required:Tools development for researchers and engineersAI-assisted developer workflowsFormal methods familiarityResearch & engineering collaboration

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Generous time off + paid holidays
  • Company-paid life and AD&D, with voluntary supplemental options
  • Company 401(k) match up to 6%
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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