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Research Scientist
Research Scientist
FutureSearchRemote
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Salary
$160k - $250k
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Description
Conduct frontier research on AI forecasting, epistemics, and modern AI systems, turning ambiguous problems into concrete progress quickly.
  • Study LLM agents and the future of AI
  • Build benchmarks, datasets, and tasks to evaluate AI systems
  • Use coding agents to run experiments and productionize results
  • Connect research to product and customer deliverables
  • Travel to meet the team at minimum 6 times per year
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