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Research Scientist/Engineer, AI Scheming
Research Scientist/Engineer, AI Scheming
Apollo ResearchLondon, UK / San Francisco, CA
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Salary
USD 245,000 - USD 590,000
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Description
Research AI scheming through experiments on RL-trained LLMs, model organisms, evaluation techniques, and scaling laws for deceptive or reward-seeking behavior.
  • Study RL dynamics behind reward-seeking, evaluation awareness, and misaligned preferences
  • Design and train model organisms, then scale insights to frontier systems
  • Build empirical foundations for “scaling laws of scheming”
  • Develop evaluation techniques that can scale to highly evaluation-aware models
  • Visa sponsorship available in the UK and US
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