Scale AI · 2 months ago
Machine Learning Research Lead, Security & Policy Research Lab
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/StaffScaleAI is a leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, focusing on understanding and safeguarding AI models and systems. They are seeking a highly experienced research lead to drive research priorities in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations, collaborating with industry, public sector, and academia to inform AI governance globally.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data Collection and LabelingGenerative AIImage RecognitionMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead a team of research scientists and engineers on foundational AI safety and security work in evaluation and robustness
Drive research initiatives on frameworks and benchmarks for frontier AI models, spanning reasoning, coding, multi-modal, and agentic behaviors
Design and advance scalable oversight methods, leveraging model-assisted evaluation, rubric-guided judgments, and recursive oversight
Collaborate with leading research labs across industry and academia
Publish research at top-tier venues and contribute to open-source benchmarking initiatives
Remain deeply engaged with the research community, both understanding trends and setting them
Qualification
Required
Track record of impactful research in machine learning, especially in generative AI, evaluation, or oversight
Significant experience leading ML research in academia or industry
Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
Experience building and mentoring teams of research scientists and engineers
Publications at major ML/AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR) and/or journals
Benefits
Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits
A learning and development stipend
Generous PTO
A commuter stipend
Company
Scale AI
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions.
Founded in 2016
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$15.9BKey Investors
MetaAccelTiger Global Management
2025-06-10Corporate Round· $14.3B
2025-06-04Series Unknown
2024-05-21Series F· $1B
Leadership Team
Jason Droege
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Cinelli
Chief Financial Officer
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