Alignment Red Team Research Engineer Research Scientist

You will research and evaluate misalignment risks in frontier AI systems. You will build alignment evaluations, run pre-deployment testing, analyse and report findings, publish research, and develop software and tooling that improves evaluation quality, realism, and usability.

Responsibilities

• Research methods for automatically identifying misalignment in frontier models
• Build and run alignment evaluations for loss-of-control risks
• Run pre-deployment alignment evaluations and analyse and report results
• Contribute to research publications and technical reports
• Design and build software and open-source tooling for alignment evaluations
• Conduct threat modelling and translate risks into testable hypotheses
• Investigate alignment incidents
• Mentor and advise external collaborators and researchers

Requirements

• Autonomous experience delivering complex AI safety, security, or alignment research projects involving engineering, experiment design, and frontier LLM analysis
• Software engineering and machine learning experience
• At least 1 year of professional Python programming experience for machine learning or software engineering
• Experience writing clean, documented machine learning research code
• Experience with PyTorch or Inspect
• Ability to work collaboratively and adapt to team needs
• Familiarity with alignment literature, LLM post-training, loss-of-control risks, and threat models
• Proficient use of LLM coding tools and agents

Benefits

• Pre-release access to frontier models and ample compute
• Hybrid working and flexibility for occasional remote work abroad
• Stipend for work-from-home equipment
• At least 25 days of annual leave
• 8 public holidays
• Extra team-wide breaks
• 3 days of volunteering leave
• Paid parental leave
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of base salary
• Cycling, donation, retail, and gym discounts and benefits