CareerPlan

Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety

Alewife, Cambridge, MAFull-time$180k–$298k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop automated red-teaming approaches, safety evaluations, and monitoring systems for autonomous scientific AI models and workflows to mitigate misuse risks.

Role type

Research Scientist / Research Engineer (AI Safety)

Builds

Automated safety evaluation tools, red-teaming frameworks, and risk monitoring systems for scientific AI agents.

Domain

AI Safety, Scientific Superintelligence, Autonomous Scientific Workflows

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Empirical judgment, practical programming, modern AI systems experience, experimental design, failure mode investigation, tool-mediated workflow analysis

Preferred skills

Automated red teaming, adversarial testing, scientific AI, laboratory automation, scalable experimental infrastructure

Technologies

AI models, agent systems, simulated lab environments, evaluation infrastructure

Responsibilities

Develop and run capability evaluations of scientific models and tool-mediated workflows; Create methods to explore diverse failure modes and adapt tests; Build reproducible experiments and evaluation tools; Measure quality and coverage of automated assessments; Develop broader safety automation for threat management and monitoring; Collaborate with engineers to translate findings into safeguards.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC