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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
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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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