Research Scientist

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. As a Research Scientist here, you will lead and execute high-impact research that advances the safety and reliability of frontier AI systems.

Requirements

• Own end-to-end research experiments.
• Train and fine-tune large transformer models across domains.
• Build and maintain datasets and benchmarks.
• Run distributed training and evaluation at scale.
• Write and ship research, collaborating with co-authors, and supporting submissions of papers to top conferences.
• Collaborate with researchers and external partners while contributing to shared research direction and responding quickly in research cycles.
• Mentor and guide others on the team.

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401K plan + 4% matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• Annual Professional Development Stipend