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Senior Research Scientist / Engineer, Deception
Senior Research Scientist / Engineer, Deception
FAR.AIBerkeley, CA preferred / Remote
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Salary
$225K – $350K
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Description
Lead research on detecting and mitigating AI deception, partnering with the team’s Research Lead to scale methods to a level frontier labs can adopt.
  • Lead projects on white-box deception detection, probe-based monitoring and training against probes
  • Run post-training and RL experiments on large models, including RLVR and probe-penalty fine-tuning
  • Design model organisms that stress-test methods against realistic failure cases
  • Mentor Members of Technical Staff and help frontier labs adopt the team’s methods
  • Visa sponsorship available for in-person employees
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