Alignment Scientist/Engineer

Highlights

• Research neglected alignment directions like pretraining safety interventions.
• Partner with Anthropic, Princeton, RAND on deployed safety-critical systems.
• Spend 100% time on alignment R&D guiding research direction autonomously.

What they offer

• Platinum health insurance
• Free lunches at the office
• Weekly knowledge-sharing talks
• Annual team retreat
• Regular performance-based raises
• Employee equity program
• Flexible schedules
• Coworking spaces in Bay Area and NYC

Ideal candidate

High-agency technical generalist deeply passionate about AI alignment and increasing human agency. Thrives autonomously in fast-paced, startup-like research environments and loves turning ambitious ideas into real impact.

Requirements

• Experienced in ML research, alignment research, or both
• Deeply passionate about AI alignment and believe genuine progress is possible
• Excellent at Python, Pytorch, and the modern deep learning stack
• Knowledgeable about building, training, or evaluating deep learning models
• Comfortable calling AI model APIs via REST or client libraries
• Adept at decomposing complex problems into concrete, testable experiments
• AI-native, and eager to use AI tools to automate your workflow
• Thrives in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Adept in English and comfortable communicating technical work to all audiences