# Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety

**Company**: Faculty
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we've worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI.

You will join our high-impact R&D team to lead original technical research that advances our understanding of safe AI systems. Operating with high agency, you will balance scientific rigour with practical relevance to shape the future of safe AI deployment.

**Responsibilities**

- Leading original technical research in AI safety, steering projects from initial research question to high-impact publication.

- Shaping the research agenda by identifying high-impact projects that balance scientific rigour with real-world relevance.

- Contributing thought leadership and deep technical expertise to support wider evaluation and red-teaming efforts.

- Supporting our positioning as a global leader through active external engagement with frontier labs and government stakeholders.

- Developing robust, reproducible research code and engineering infrastructure to accelerate our scientific discovery.

- Collaborating with cross-functional safety teams to translate fundamental research into practical mitigation strategies.

**Requirements**

- Strong track record in AI research, evidenced by publications or equivalent experience, alongside the ability to tackle open, unsolved problems.

- Capability to own research end-to-end, moving independently from framing novel problems to generating high-quality research artifacts.

- Passion for technical AI safety, whether developed in academia, industry labs, or evaluation roles.

- Deep knowledge of language models and generative AI architectures, including white-box techniques beyond API-level access.

- Strong foundation in machine learning fundamentals, particularly in robustness, explainability, or uncertainty estimation.

- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and the Python skills required to build robust research tooling.

## Skills

### Required
- AI research
- machine learning
- deep learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- language models
- generative AI architectures

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