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Research Engineer
Research Engineer
ResolutionBerkeley, CA / London, UK / Remote
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Salary
L3 (SWE I): $141,000 remote; $236,000 in-person – L4 (SWE II): $208,000 remote; $346,000 in-person – L5 (Senior SWE): $270,000 remote; $451,000 in-person – L6 (Staff SWE): $402,000 remote; $670,000 in-person – L7 (Senior Staff SWE): $738,000 remote; $930,000 in-person
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Description
Build agentic research infrastructure and scale experiments to help align artificial superintelligence before it arrives.
  • Two tracks: research automation (AI assistants, experiment orchestration) or program-embedded engineering (scaling experiments, theory-to-empirical translation)
  • Work directly with researchers on core infrastructure, distributed training, and autoformalization tooling
  • Salary ranges from $141k–$930k depending on level and location; remote considered in exceptional cases
  • 5 weeks paid vacation, comprehensive healthcare, 4% automatic 401(k) contribution, visa sponsorship available
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