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About the role
Projects are mentor-guided. By default, you will be given a list of research proposals and match you with one based on your research interests and background. You’ll meet weekly with a Scale researcher who sets the direction and gives feedback, and you will drive the day-to-day work. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Own research end to end: Turn a high-level safety question into hypotheses, baselines, and controlled experiments, and produce work that others can inspect and build on
- Build the measurement: Implement and debug evaluation harnesses, agent environments, datasets, monitoring methods, or post-training experiments
- Exercise research judgment: Identify confounds, separate what a model can do from what it tends to do, make sense of negative results, and decide what to try next without step-by-step direction
More about this role
The Human Frontier Collective (HFC) brings researchers and scientists together to tackle consequential problems in AI. In partnership with Scale Labs, we are building a small cohort of researchers to work on the empirical foundations of AI safety.
That work includes finding where models fail, checking whether safety controls hold up under pressure in realistic settings, and studying how AI agents (mis-)behave over long-horizon tasks. Scholars take open research questions like these and turn them into work that improves how frontier AI systems are evaluated and safeguarded.
Each scholar owns a substantial part of a safety research project. You'll work alongside a mentor from the research question through the experiments to deciding what to test next.
Mentors will guide Research Scholars on projects in selected AI safety research areas in select AI safety research areas, such as:
- AI control and chain-of-thought monitoring: Developing techniques to oversee and constrain AIs, including detecting harmful intent or deception.
- Alignment auditing and evaluations: Building scalable methods to test whether models have hidden goals, misaligned behaviors or unsafe tendencies.
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