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From the employer's careers site First seen 18 Apr 2026 · Still live on 15 Nov 2026

Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science - London

Anthropic London, UK Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

£260,000-£370,000 GBP

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Description

About the role:

You will contribute to exploratory experimental research on AI safety, with a focus on risks from powerful future systems. As a Research Engineer on Alignment Science, you'll work on creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct research on AI control and alignment stress-testing
  • Develop and implement new techniques for ensuring AI safety
  • Collaborate with other teams, including Interpretability, Fine-Tuning, and the Frontier Red Team
  • Test and evaluate the effectiveness of AI safety techniques

Requirements:

  • Significant software, ML, or research engineering experience
  • Familiarity with technical AI safety research
  • Experience contributing to empirical AI research projects

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience authoring research papers in machine learning, NLP, or AI safety
  • Experience with LLMs
  • Experience with reinforcement learning

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Note:

This role requires all candidates to be based at least 25% in London and travel to San Francisco occasionally.

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