Mathematical Scientist for AI Safety Research
Core
Theoretical research to develop a novel, safe-by-design AI system (Scientist AI) with probabilistic safety guarantees under finite data and compute constraints.
Role type
Principal theoretical researcher (AI safety)
Builds
Theoretical blueprint for safe AGI and corresponding safety guarantees
Domain
AI safety, machine learning theory, formal methods
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
formalization of natural-language intuition, abstract systems thinking, probabilistic machine learning theory, neural network analysis, language model analysis
Preferred skills
technical AI safety experience, conference travel
Technologies
next-token-prediction, DPO, RLHF, RLVR
Responsibilities
Explore new AI system architectures and safety mechanisms; analyze and refine formal requirements for safe deployment; write and disseminate scientific papers; guide research agenda to prioritize critical safety experiments; share knowledge to help design new ML algorithms
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC