# Research Scientist/Engineer (Fundamental Research) at Apollo Research

- Company: Apollo Research
- What the company does: Apollo Research is focused on reducing risks from scheming frontier AI. Our goal is to secure frontier AI systems across development, deployment, and governance. Backed by Fifty Years.
- Company website: https://apolloresearch.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: London & San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply by: 2026-12-14
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/apolloresearch/470d35f7-1caf-4138-b549-95109f45c617?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/apollo-research-research-scientist-engineer-fundamental-science/

## About the role

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident may be the biggest warning shot we get before catastrophic loss-of-control. In its aftermath, Anthropic and OpenAI committed to giving embedded evaluators an unprecedented level of access. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Fast-paced empirical research: You can design and execute experiments. You always strive to speed up iteration cycles and relentlessly drive progress towards the next empirical milestone
- Experience RL-training LLMs: You have hands-on experience in training LLMs via reinforcement learning. You have encountered and resolved countless painful issues from GPU failures to debugging learning instabilities
- Software engineering skills: Strong software engineering skills correlate highly with effective execution, even in an era of AI agents. Our entire stack uses Python

Tags: Scheming Research

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