# Staff Research Scientist, AI Safety at Evolutionary Scale

- Company: Evolutionary Scale
- What the company does: ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://evolutionaryscale.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $241K to $301K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/biohub/jobs/8127000
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/evolutionary-scale-staff-research-scientist-ai-safety-2/

## About the role

This is an opportunity to shape the future of biological research by pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in science. You’ll work alongside leading experts in AI and biology, with the resources and mandate to tackle some of the most important questions in human health—advancing frontier AI research, accelerating engineering velocity, connecting rich biological data to AI systems, enabling reliable compute across environments, and translating models and data into usable, scalable applications that drive...

## What they're looking for

- Rigorously think through important open scientific questions that don’t have textbook answers
- Design and build safety evaluations to understand AI capabilities at the frontier of biology
- Collaborate closely with scientists across Biohub to build safeguards that are robust to potential misuse, enabling our AI systems to be used for maximum societal benefit
- Gain direct access to a network of leading external experts and Biohub partners for collaboration and to inform your safety work
- Monitor capability advancements and emerging technologies across AI and assess how these advances impact the robustness of our safeguards
- Partner closely with colleagues to develop, implement, and evolve our frontier safety policy

Tags: AI Research