Center for AI Safety

Center for AI Safety

Research Scientist

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$220kDetected 982 days ago
Machine LearningPyTorchNLPLLMsResearch

About the role

  • The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI.
  • The work spans areas like AI honesty, robustness, transparency, and trojan/backdoor behaviors, aimed at reducing real-world risks from advanced AI systems.
  • You might be a good fit if you: - Are a current PhD student or researcher in machine learning or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end research experiments.
  • Build and maintain datasets and benchmarks.
  • Collaborate with researchers and external partners while contributing to shared research direction and responding quickly in research cycles.

Requirements

  • Exceptional candidates with a strong publication record may be considered regardless of degree level.

Nice to have

  • Have co-authored at least one paper published at a top ML conference venue (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR).
  • Workshop papers are considered, though peer-reviewed conference publications are strongly preferred.
  • Publications in journals such as IEEE or Springer Nature are typically given less weight.

Compensation

  • $170k-$220k

Benefits

  • Are a current PhD student or researcher in machine learning or a related field.
  • If we end up hiring your referral, you'll receive a $1,500 bonus once they've been with CAIS for 90 days.

Equal opportunity

  • The Center for AI Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This listing is sourced directly from Center for AI Safety's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.