Senior Research Engineer

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. As a Senior Research Engineer, you will take full ownership of research projects, design and run experiments on large language models, and collaborate closely with researchers and external partners to drive impactful research in AI safety.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end research experiments, from premise to publication
• Train and fine-tune large transformer models across domains
• Own the design and maintenance of datasets and benchmarks
• Run distributed training and evaluation at scale
• Write and ship research, collaborating with co-authors, and supporting submissions of papers to top conferences
• Collaborate with researchers and external partners while helping drive shared research direction and responding quickly in research cycles
• Take ownership of research infrastructure as needed, such as internal tooling, documentation, and reproducibility practices for the team