# Member of Technical Staff, Alignment at Abundant

- Company: Abundant
- What the company does: Environments and datasets for RL. Powering the world. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.abundant.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/abundant/0d11f5c1-036f-4ef9-872f-f9407fb79d57
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/abundant-member-of-technical-staff-alignment/

## About the role

Frontier labs test their models in environments like ours, which means we are the first to see novel model behavior. You will make sure that alignment is baked into everything the do: the code we deploy, the runbooks we write, and the papers we publish. Run experiments on how our environments shape behavior: reward hacking, cheating the task, unsafe use of tools, deception over long runs. Then change how we build them.

## What they're looking for

- You are an engineer first. You build your own test pipelines, learn strange codebases quickly, and find the bug in the log
- You know LLM safety in depth: attacks, red teaming, monitoring and control evaluations, reward hacking
- You can turn a vague worry about a model into an experiment, run it, and say what the result does and does not prove
- You read transcripts closely. You catch the small thing that makes the whole result wrong
- You have put research into production systems, especially post-training, distillation, or evaluation that something depends on
- You write clearly enough that your results change what other people do

Tags: Engineering