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Senior Research Engineer

FAR.AIRemote / Berkeley, USA

Remote / Berkeley, USA

5 months ago

AI safety & policy

Full-time

Routes to impact

Direct high impact on an important cause

Skill-building & building career capital

Description

A full-time role for experienced engineers who want to lead high-impact AI safety research across model training, evaluations, or research infrastructure.

Research impact – Lead projects on AI deception, adversarial robustness, red-teaming, or mechanistic interpretability with a 30+ person technical team
Technical scope – Work on large-scale transformer training, frontier model evaluations, or GPU infrastructure and distributed systems
Leadership – Mentor engineers and researchers; shape 3–6 month research roadmaps within growing workstreams
Compensation and flexibility – $150K–$250K salary (location-dependent), remote or Berkeley-based, visa sponsorship and travel support available

Also open to senior researchers with a strong vision for new AI safety directions within FAR.Research.

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