ML Engineer, AI Risk Initiative

ML Engineer, AI Risk Initiative

Opportunity type
Part-time role
Cause areas
AI safety & policy
Global priorities research
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Skill-building & building career capital
Learning about important cause areas
Skill set
Software engineering
Conceptual & empirical research
Description
MIT’s AI Risk Initiative is hiring a part-time, 6-month contractor ML Engineer to build and improve LLM-augmented pipelines for evidence synthesis and systematic reviews on AI risks.
  • Develop and integrate modules for document identification, screening, extraction, and classification to support reviews of global organizations’ AI risk responses
  • Build human validation processes and interfaces, and measure pipeline performance against human benchmarks
  • Refactor and generalize the pipeline for broader use in risk repositories, incident tracking, and governance mapping
  • Collaborate with researchers, document findings, and help automate processes where LLMs can outperform humans
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