FAR.AI · 17 hours ago
Research Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $190K/yrFAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. They are seeking Research Engineers to implement machine learning algorithms, run experiments, and analyze results as part of their AI safety research projects.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)EventsNon Profit
Responsibilities
Implement machine learning algorithms, run experiments and analyze results
Conducting pre- and post-release adversarial evaluations of frontier models; developing novel attacks to support this work; and exploring new threat models
Maintaining GPU compute infrastructure to support experiments with open-weight models and developing new tooling to allow research teams to scale their fine-tuning and post-training workflows to frontier open-weight models
Studying when lie detectors induce honesty or evasion, and developing for deception and sandbagging
Working to rigorously solve security problems through building a science of security and robustness for AI, from demonstrating superhuman systems can be vulnerable, to scaling laws for robustness and jailbreaking constitutional classifiers
Finding issues with Sparse Autoencoders, probing deception using AmongUs, understanding learned planning in SokoBan and interpretable data attribution
Develop scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms and use them to run scientific experiments
Contribute to open source codebases such as Pytorch, HuggingFace Transformers and Accelerate
Involved in the write-up of results and credited as an author in papers
Propose novel directions and join a research pod which suits interests
Qualification
Required
Have significant software engineering experience or experience applying machine learning methods. Evidence of this may include prior work experience, open-source contributions, or academic publications
Have experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (preferably Python)
Are results-oriented and motivated by impactful research
Preferred
Common ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
Natural language processing or reinforcement learning
Operating system internals and distributed systems
Publications or open-source software contributions
Basic linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics
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
11-50 employees
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Early StageLeadership Team
Adam Gleave
Co-founder & CEO
Karl Berzins
Co-founder & COO
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