Research Scientist, Agent Robustness
Posted
$216,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them.
- Design and build harnesses to test AI agents’ tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment.
- Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use.
- Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents.
Benefits
- 401k
- Equity
- Health Insurance
- Learning Budget
Culture
Mission-DrivenInclusive HiringWork-Life Balance
Requirements
Regions: Us
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About Scale
Industry: ai
Size: enterprise
Scale AI is building the data infrastructure behind the world's most capable AI systems, providing high-quality data and full-stack technologies to power leading models and help enterprises and governments deploy AI applications.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $216,000 USD
Equity: equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval