Research Associate

Palisade Research is hiring an early-career Research Associate to update, extend, and publish its previous research findings. The role focuses on reviewing research methods and results, testing newer AI models, incorporating relevant external work, and producing clear technical updates.

Responsibilities:

• Examine and extend experiments to look at newer models; explore variant prompts, improved scaffolding, stronger baselines; related methodological refinements
• Review past research for errors, quality issues, and opportunities for improvement, using frontier LLMs to assist with analysis, critique, and re-testing
• Engage with external work that builds on and critiques Palisade’s findings; incorporate the useful ideas into updated evaluations
• Write and publish clear updates, corrections, and extensions (preprints, LessWrong posts)
• Help maintain high standards of research integrity and transparency (reproducibility, clear documentation of methods and limitations, etc.)