Research Engineer, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.
• Experience working with research teams.

Nice to haves

• Experience conducting or contributing to applied research to improve the safety and alignment of frontier AI systems.
• Experience with training large models (e.g., supervised finetuning, RLHF).

What You'll Be Doing

• Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.
• Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.
• Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are ‘thinking’.
• Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.

Perks and Benefits

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