Research Scientist - Alignment — San Francisco, CA

• Do you have recent hands-on research experience in AI safety and alignment for frontier models?

• Have you made meaningful contributions to recognised benchmarks, published research or public evaluations?

• Do you have hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, post-training or frontier-model evaluations?

• Have you worked on areas such as reward hacking, deception, sabotage, self-improvement or AI R&D capability evaluation?

• Can you design rigorous benchmarks, identify weaknesses in evaluations and work with engineers to turn research into reproducible environments?

If you answer yes to the above, then this confidential role could be the one for you.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage applied AI research company and establish a new safety evaluation direction focused on frontier models. The successful candidate will design benchmarks and environments that measure advanced model capabilities and misaligned behaviour, while working closely with engineers to turn research into evaluations used by leading AI organisations. The role is based on-site in San Francisco, 5 days per week. Salary on offer is up to $400,000 plus equity (potentially a little more for an ideal candidate)