Research Scientist in AI Safety

22 hours ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom AI Safety Institute Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Research Scientist to join our team at the AI Safety Institute. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of rigorous scientific techniques for the measurement of frontier AI system capabilities.

As a member of our Science of Evaluations team, you will be responsible for conducting applied and foundational research focused on two key areas:

  • Measurement of Capabilities: You will develop and apply robust scientific techniques for measuring frontier AI system capabilities, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and usefulness in decision-making.
  • Increasing Confidence in Claims: You will work on developing methods for inferring model capabilities across given domains from task or benchmark success rates, and assigning confidence levels to claims about capabilities.

This is a challenging and rewarding role that requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for policy impact.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conducting internal red teaming of testing exercises and adversarial collaborations with evaluations teams
  • Developing sanity checks to ensure claims made in reports are as strong as possible
  • Staying well-informed of details and strengths/weaknesses of evaluations across domains in AISI and the state of the art in frontier AI evaluations research more broadly

We offer a competitive salary of $120,000 - $180,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits including flexible working, pension scheme, annual leave, and learning & professional development opportunities.


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