AI Safety Research Scientist

3 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom AI Safety Institute Full time
About the AI Safety Institute
The AI Safety Institute (AISI) is a pioneering organization dedicated to advancing AI safety for the public interest. Our mission is to assess and mitigate risks from frontier AI systems, including cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, AI-enhanced chemical and biological threats, large-scale societal disruptions, and potential loss of control over increasingly powerful AI.

At AISI, we're building the premier institution for impacting both technical AI safety and AI governance. We conduct cutting-edge research, develop novel evaluation tools, and provide crucial insights to governments, companies, and international partners. As a Research Scientist, you'll collaborate with world-class researchers and other exceptional staff, directly shape global AI policies, and tackle complex challenges at the forefront of technology and ethics.

In this role, you will use cutting-edge machine learning techniques to improve model performance in our domains of interest. The work is split into two sub-teams: Agents and Finetuning. Our Agents sub-team focuses on developing the LLM tools and scaffolding to create highly capable LLM-based agents, while our Finetuning Team builds out finetuning pipelines to improve models on our domains of interest.

You may be a good fit if you have some of the following skills, experience and attitudes:
  1. Experience conducting empirical machine learning research (e.g. PhD in a technical field and/or papers at top ML conferences), particularly on LLMs.
  2. Experience with machine learning engineering, or extensive experience as a software engineer with a strong demonstration of relevant skills/knowledge in the machine learning.

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