Research Scientist

Neo Research is an independent AI safety research organization studying frontier risks in increasingly capable AI systems, particularly within the open-weight and Asian frontier-model ecosystems. The Research Scientist will own AI safety research projects end-to-end, develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks, collaborate with research engineers, and communicate findings through publications and external engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Own research projects end-to-end: identify important questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, analyse results, and publish the work
• Develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks, including evaluation awareness, sandbagging, dishonesty, sycophancy, and unsafe behaviour in agentic settings
• Study behaviours that are difficult to observe directly, including long-horizon failure modes and cases where models may have incentives to conceal relevant behaviour
• Investigate whether existing alignment and evaluation methods continue to work across different frontier-model ecosystems
• Work closely with research engineers to turn research ideas into robust, reproducible experiments
• Contribute to Neo’s broader research agenda and communicate findings to researchers, model developers, and safety institutions