FAR.AI · 2 hours ago
Research Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/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 Scientists to work on impactful AI alignment and security projects, focusing on scoping research directions, implementing experiments, and analyzing results.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)EventsNon Profit
Responsibilities
Scoping research directions, implementing and running experiments, analyzing and writing-up 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
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
Taking ownership of and accelerating existing AI alignment research agendas
Publishing research findings broadly and engaging with the AI alignment community
Developing scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms and using them to run scientific experiments
Proposing novel research directions and joining a research pod which suits interests
Qualification
Required
PhD or several years research experience in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning or statistics
Experience leading and/or playing a senior role in research projects related to machine learning
Ability to effectively communicate novel methods and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
New and under-explored AI alignment idea(s)
Benefits
Work-related travel
Equipment expenses
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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Co-founder & CEO
Karl Berzins
Co-founder & COO
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