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Researcher, Multimodal Safety

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define and advance multimodal safety research for text, vision, and audio to ensure frontier models behave safely across Chat and multimodal experiences.

Role type

Senior IC multimodal safety researcher (vision-language models)

Builds

Training and evaluation methods for VLMs, including post-training, safety evals, and interventions

Domain

AI safety, multimodal systems, vision-language models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

multimodal model development, vision-language models, modality fusion, image encoders, multimodal post-training, safety evaluations, SFT, RL, data curation, synthetic data, error analysis, cross-modal reasoning, scaling, inference optimization

Preferred skills

video understanding, image generation, audio systems, multimodal reasoning, end-to-end system architecture

Technologies

VLMs, SFT, RL, synthetic data pipelines

Responsibilities

Define and advance multimodal safety research connecting perception to safe behavior; Build training and evaluation methods for VLMs; Collaborate with product and model teams to translate research into safer multimodal experiences

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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