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FAR.AI · 1 month ago

Senior Research Engineer

Berkeley Office

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $250K/yr

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute focused on ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. They are seeking a Senior Research Engineer to enhance their technical depth in AI safety research, leading projects in areas such as detecting deception in AI models and preventing catastrophic misuse of frontier AI models.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)EventsNon Profit

H1B Sponsored

Responsibilities

Have significant software engineering experience. Evidence of this may include prior work experience and open-source contributions

Be fluent working in Python

Be results-oriented and motivated by impactful research

Bring prior experience mentoring other engineers or scientists in engineering skills

Join one of our existing workstreams and lead projects there: Detecting and preventing deception. Under what conditions can we reliably detect deceptive behaviour from models, and can such behaviour be effectively mitigated at scale? This would focus on large-scale training of transformers

Preventing catastrophic misuse. Apply our research insights to red-team vulnerabilities of frontier AI models prior to deployment, to evaluate and increase the safety of open weight models. This would focus more on technical leadership

Accelerating our research. Build frameworks and infrastructure that allows us to ask bigger questions and more rapidly run new experiments, to deepen our research

Qualification

PythonMachine LearningHigh-Performance ComputingTechnical LeadershipKubernetesPyTorchCUDASoftware EngineeringMentoringProject Management

Required

Have significant software engineering experience. Evidence of this may include prior work experience and open-source contributions

Be fluent working in Python

Be results-oriented and motivated by impactful research

Bring prior experience mentoring other engineers or scientists in engineering skills

Substantial experience training transformers with common ML frameworks like PyTorch or jax

Good knowledge of basic linear algebra, calculus, vector probability, and statistics

Power user of cluster orchestrators such as Kubernetes (preferred) or SLURM

Experience building high-performance distributed-systems (e.g. multi-node training, large-scale numerical computation)

Experience optimizing and profiling code (ideally including on GPU, e.g. CUDA kernels)

Experience designing large-scale software systems, whether as an architect in greenfield software development or leading a major refactor

Comfortable project managing small teams, such as chairing stand-ups and developing detailed roadmaps to execute on a 3-6 month research vision

Benefits

We will also pay for work-related travel and equipment expenses.

We offer catered lunch and dinner at our offices in Berkeley.

Company

FAR.AI

FAR.AI is a technical AI research and education non-profit, dedicated to ensuring the safe development and deployment of frontier AI systems.

Founded in 2022

San Diego, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://far.ai

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