Research Lead, Training GoodfireResearch Lead, TrainingSan Francisco, California$400,000–$600,000 / yearYou'll build, mentor, and grow a world-class team of researchers, set technical direction, and partner closely with scientific leadership to turn ambitious ideas into production systems and lasting research breakthroughs. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain.
Research Engineer AndoResearch EngineerSan Francisco, CaliforniaBuild evaluation from real data - Mine production workspace data (carefully, with consent and redaction pipelines you'll help design) into benchmarks and labeled datasets. Some concrete research problems on our plate right now: Proactivity: An agent embedded in a team's channels has to decide, message by message, whether to ignore, quietly track, or intervene.
Research Specialist / Sr Scientist, Assay Sciences, Discovery Pharmacology Altos LabsResearch Specialist / Sr Scientist, Assay Sciences, Discovery PharmacologySan Francisco, CA$129,500–$166,000 / yearAs a Research Specialist or Sr Scientist of Assay Sciences, Discovery Pharmacology team, your primary focus will be supporting the needs of development and operation of a wide range of analytical and bioassays within the Drug Discovery and Development (3DS) division of Altos. You'll be taking manual assays and turning them into super-efficient, automated processes-think moving from a bench to high-throughput screening with automated gear.
AI Research Scientist WriterAI Research ScientistSan Francisco, CAThe instincts and orientation that match WRITER's values: you Connect - you collaborate openly across research, engineering, and product and communicate complex ideas with clarity to both technical and non-technical audiences; you Challenge - you ask the hard questions, push back on conventional wisdom, and pursue the research directions others haven't tried yet; you Own - you drive your projects end-to-end with urgency, take accountability for results, and care deeply about the impact your work has on real customers. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.
Senior Member Of Research Staff VOLEONSenior Member Of Research StaffBerkeley, CAYour research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. As a Senior Member of Research Staff, you will work at the forefront of modern statistical machine learning leading key projects focused on enduring challenges of financial market prediction and portfolio optimization.
Research Manager EmendataResearch ManagerSan Francisco, CaliforniaWith this approach, our small but fast-growing team is having a big impact taking on challenges in healthcare program integrity – safeguarding programs like Medicare and Medicaid by preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. Working Style : Able to produce high-quality work in a client-facing environment under dynamic circumstances; enterprising in acquiring knowledge and figuring out problems; disciplined/structured in approach to work.
Member Of Research Staff VOLEONMember Of Research StaffBerkeley, CAYour research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. The behavior of financial markets is noisy and violates a number of classical statistical assumptions, and we've spent over a decade pioneering scientific advances in the application of machine learning techniques to this domain.
Research Engineer I / II- Theodoris Lab Gladstone InstitutesResearch Engineer I / II- Theodoris LabSan Francisco, CaliforniaThe laboratory of Christina Theodoris, MD, PhD, is seeking a highly motivated AI research engineer with a strong background in computer science and machine learning to join her research program in the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology. A meaningful place to grow and learn –whether it’s your professional skills or scientific knowledge, we have the resources and environment to advance either so you can better support Gladstone’s mission to drive a new era of discovery in disease-oriented science and to mentor tomorrow’s leaders in an inspiring and excellent environment.
Member Of Research Staff, Optimization VOLEONMember Of Research Staff, OptimizationBerkeley, CAYour research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations Scale AI, Inc.Research Scientist, Frontier Risk EvaluationsSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearFor example, you might do any or all of the following: Design and build harnesses to test AI models and systems (including agents) for dangerous capabilities such as security vulnerability exploitation, CBRN uplift, and other high-risk activities; Work with government agencies or other labs to collectively scope and design evaluations to measure and mitigate risks posed by advanced AI systems; Publish evaluation methodologies and write technical reports for policymakers. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
Research Scientist, AI Controls And Monitoring Scale AI, Inc.Research Scientist, AI Controls And MonitoringSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearThe range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. As a Research Scientist focused on AI Controls and Monitoring, you will design methods, systems, and experiments to ensure that advanced AI models and agents remain aligned with intended goals, even in high-stakes or adversarial environments.
Research Scientist, Agent Robustness Scale AI, Inc.Research Scientist, Agent RobustnessSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearFor example, you might: Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them; Design and build harnesses to test AI agents' tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment; Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use; Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training AnthropicResearch Engineer, Production Model Post-TrainingSan Francisco, CAThis research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with.
Research Engineer, Life Sciences AnthropicResearch Engineer, Life SciencesSan Francisco, CAThis research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Research Operations Lead, Biology AnthropicResearch Operations Lead, BiologySan Francisco, CAManage vendor and supplier relationships: including contract research organizations: source and qualify vendors, negotiate quotes and service contracts, schedule preventive maintenance and field-service visits, and hold suppliers to their commitments. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Research Scientist, Interpretability AnthropicResearch Scientist, InterpretabilitySan Francisco, CAIn the short term, we have focused on resolving the issue of "superposition" (see Toy Models of Superposition, Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent, and our May 2023 update), which causes the computational units of the models, like neurons and attention heads, to be individually uninterpretable, and on finding ways to decompose models into more interpretable components. A few places to learn more about our work and team at a high level are this introduction to Interpretability from our research lead, Chris Olah; a discussion of our work on the Hard Fork podcast produced by the New York Times, and this blog post (and accompanying video) sharing more about some of the engineering challenges we'd had to solve to get these results.
Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel AnthropicResearch Scientist, Takeoff IntelSan Francisco, CAThis research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. We're looking for a Research Scientist who has done hands-on research on large models (pretraining, fine-tuning, RL, evals, or agents scaffolds) and wants to focus on measuring and understanding recursive-self-improvement.
Ml/Research Engineer, Safeguards AnthropicMl/Research Engineer, SafeguardsSan Francisco, CAThis research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Research Engineer I II/III (AI / Machine Learning) Gladstone InstitutesResearch Engineer I II/III (AI / Machine Learning)San Francisco, California$78,000–$114,000 / yearYou will develop AI systems that access scientific literature, laboratory datasets, electronic lab notebooks, Slack discussions, manuscripts, protocols, and experimental results in order to generate hypotheses, critique ideas, design experiments, and accelerate discovery. A meaningful place to grow and learn –whether it’s your professional skills or scientific knowledge, we have the resources and environment to advance either so you can better support Gladstone’s mission to drive a new era of discovery in disease-oriented science and to mentor tomorrow’s leaders in an inspiring and excellent environment.
Research Engineer I Ii/Iii (AI / Machine Learning) Gladstone InstitutesResearch Engineer I Ii/Iii (AI / Machine Learning)San Francisco, CA$78,000–$114,000 / yearYou will develop AI systems that access scientific literature, laboratory datasets, electronic lab notebooks, Slack discussions, manuscripts, protocols, and experimental results in order to generate hypotheses, critique ideas, design experiments, and accelerate discovery. A meaningful place to grow and learn-whether it's your professional skills or scientific knowledge, we have the resources and environment to advance either so you can better support Gladstone's mission to drive a new era of discovery in disease-oriented science and to mentor tomorrow's leaders in an inspiring and excellent environment.