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Research Scientist (Control)

Apolloresearch

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Today

Salary
£100k – £200k/yr
Location
London & San Francisco
Workplace
Onsite
Type
Full-time
Department
Product
Experience
2+ years
Visa
Sponsored
Source
Lever

Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

  

Join our new AGI safety product team and help transform AI control research into practical tools that directly reduce risks from AI. As an Research Scientist (Control), you’ll work closely with Marius (CEO & currently leads the monitoring efforts), other control researchers and product engineers. 

 

We are currently building Watcher,  a monitoring tool for coding agents. Our monitoring research agenda attempts to translate compute into safety at scale. You will join a small team and will have significant ability to shape the team & tech, and have the ability to earn responsibility quickly. 

You will like this opportunity if you're passionate about using empirical research to make AI systems safer in practice. You enjoy the challenge of translating theoretical AI risks into concrete detection mechanisms. You thrive on rapid iteration and learning from data. You want your research to directly impact real-world AI safety.

 

Skills

PythonSQL

Benefits

This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.Salary: San Francisco: $204,000 – $385,000;  London: £136,000 – £258,000. We will be looking to meaningfully raise salaries soon.Flexible work hours and scheduleUnlimited vacationUnlimited sick leaveUp to 6 months of paid parental leaveComprehensive health, dental and vision insuranceRetirement savings with competitive employer matching (e.g. 401(k) for US employees)Lunch, dinner, and snacks are provided for all employees on workdaysPaid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferencesA yearly $1,000 (USD) professional development budgetRelocation support and visa fees (if applicable) 

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