AI Alignment Research Engineer

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Atla Ai Full time

About Atla

We are a London-based start-up building the most capable AI evaluation models. Our mission is to engineer safe, beneficial AI systems that will have a massive positive impact on the future of humanity.

Role

As Atla's alignment research engineer, you'll develop language models as evaluators and use your insights to construct safety guardrails for LLMs. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Steering LLMs to become strong evaluators aligned with human preferences through prompting, supervised fine-tuning, and adversarial training.
  • Developing comprehensive evaluation and red teaming frameworks, including custom internal tooling, datasets, and metrics for rigorous assessment of alignment and safety risks.
  • Collaborating in defining and steering Atla's evolving AI safety research direction to contribute significant findings to top-tier conferences in the field.
  • Working closely with founders, advisors, and top-tier researchers to navigate the complexities of AI alignment.
  • Building and growing our applied research organisation, setting a high bar of excellence that propels Atla forward.

Please note that this role is in-person, and we can sponsor visas and offer international relocation support.

This role is supported by AI Futures Grants, a UK Government scheme designed to help the next generation of AI leaders meet the costs of relocating to the UK.

Qualifications

We're looking for exceptional ML engineers with:

  • Proficiency in training and evaluating language models across GPUs, preferably in PyTorch.
  • A proven track record in empirical research, including designing and executing experiments, and effectively writing up and communicating findings.
  • Strong software engineering experience with software design/architecture skills, preferably in Python.
  • Aptitude for distilling and applying ideas from complex research papers in our products.
  • Experience at elite AI research labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, Anthropic, etc.).

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary and significant stake in equity as one of the first joiners. If you're passionate about engineering safe, beneficial AI systems, we'd love to hear from you.

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