Research Engineer/Scientist

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence. The Research Engineer or Research Scientist will lead and execute empirical research to improve the safety and reliability of frontier AI systems by designing experiments, training and evaluating large language and multimodal models, building research infrastructure, and producing publishable work.

Responsibilities:

• Own research experiments end-to-end
• Train and fine-tune large transformer models across domains
• Build and maintain datasets and benchmarks
• Run distributed training and evaluation at scale
• Write and ship research, collaborating with co-authors, and supporting submissions of papers to top conferences
• Collaborate with researchers and external partners while contributing to shared research direction and responding quickly in research cycles
• Support research infrastructure as needed, such as internal tooling, documentation, and reproducibility practices for the team
• Mentor, guide, and support others on the team