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Research Associate, Unverbalized Dangerous Capabilities in Frontier Models
Research Associate, Unverbalized Dangerous Capabilities in Frontier Models
AI safety & policy
Full-time
AI safety & policy
Full-time
Deadline
2026-11-22
Salary
£50,733 to £59,484 per annum
Routes to impact
Direct high impact on an important cause
Description
Design and test methods to detect hidden dangerous capabilities in frontier models within a postdoctoral safety and alignment research role.
  • Develop algorithms to detect and defend against unverbalized dangerous capabilities
  • Conduct independent and collaborative research on frontier models and Chain-of-Thought monitoring
  • Publish results in venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, and EMNLP
  • Implement research ideas and contribute to lab projects, meetings, and presentations
  • Fixed term for 12 months to start ASAP and before 8 th April 2027
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