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AI Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security

Meta· Artificial Intelligence
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Menlo Park, CA$154k - $217kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Research Scientist role focusing on system design and modeling to advance AI safety and security, working within a focused incubation team and collaborating with a broad set of scientists and engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Perform fundamental and applied research to advance the scientific and technological frontiers of AI safety and security
  • Develop and evaluate methods for ensuring AI systems behave safely and as intended, including alignment techniques and robustness testing
  • Investigate paradigms for detecting and mitigating adversarial attacks, model vulnerabilities, and potential misuse of AI systems
  • Develop algorithms based on state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network methodologies with a focus on safety and security
  • Define, build and benchmark new safety and security functionalities needed for the next generation of AI
  • Conduct research towards long-term product goals while identifying intermediate milestones
  • Plan and execute novel research based on long-term objectives of the organization

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Security, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with any of the following research areas: AI safety, AI alignment, adversarial machine learning, model robustness, AI security, red-teaming AI systems, interpretability, or trustworthy AI
  • Experience in relevant AI safety and security research areas, such as: alignment techniques, reward modeling, RLHF, constitutional AI, jailbreak prevention, model robustness, or adversarial attack detection

Skills

Required:AI safetyresearch and problem solving
Nice to have:_large language models

Benefits

  • benefits listed by Meta in job posting (not to be duplicated here)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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