Staff / Principal Research Engineer, AI Safety Mitigations
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA · Alewife, Cambridge, MA · Europe · San Francisco, CA
Bio & Science AIonsitestaff$224k–$336k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build safeguards that reduce societal risks from closed-loop scientific AI.
- Turn risk assessments and eval findings into testable mitigation designs.
- Integrate mitigations into training, release evaluation and large-scale serving.
What they offer
- Comprehensive benefits program tailored to region
Ideal candidate
A high-agency research engineer who has built frontier-model safety interventions and wants to apply that to science. You thrive on ambiguous problems, rigorous experimentation, and collaborating across science and engineering to ship reliable safeguards.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience developing and validating safety interventions for frontier models in training, post-training or large-scale inference systems
- Contributions to model development or release cycles
- Depth in safety post-training, model-level classifiers, inference-integrated safeguards, or abuse monitoring and enforcement
- Experience working with model-development or safeguards teams using training pipelines, model internals or inference infrastructure to investigate failures
- Strong research-engineering skills moving from ambiguous problems to working, maintainable implementations
- Sound experimental judgment assessing robustness and reasoning about competing objectives
- Ability to collaborate across research and engineering teams and own complex individual contributions
Lab profile
About Lila Sciences
Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.
What they build
- Autonomous Science Platform
- AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
- Electro-optic materials and photonic devices
Known for
- Large-scale automated data generation
- High-throughput protein purification and analytics
- Protein design and BioML modeling
- Robotic orchestration and lab simulation
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