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Researcher, Misalignment Research

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-28 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and executing cutting-edge attacks, building adversarial evaluations, and advancing understanding of how AI safety measures fail to identify and quantify future AGI misalignment risks.

Role type

Senior Researcher, AI Safety & Misalignment

Builds

Automated infrastructure for red-teaming and stress testing; rigorous, repeatable evaluations of dangerous capabilities.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Safety

Deliverable

production ML models | research | infrastructure

Required skills

AI red-teaming, adversarial ML, security research, system-level stress testing, automated tool development, failure mode analysis, cross-functional collaboration, technical writing/publishing

Preferred skills

Experience with large-scale codebases, modern ML techniques, mentoring

Technologies

Large-scale codebases, evaluation infrastructure, automated testing frameworks

Responsibilities

Design and implement worst-case demonstrations of AGI alignment risks; Develop adversarial and system-level evaluations; Create automated tools to scale red-teaming; Conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques; Publish influential papers; Partner with engineering, policy, and legal teams; Mentor engineers and researchers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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