# Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science - London

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: London, UK
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £260,000-£370,000 GBP
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4610158008
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fab21c7e-6bf

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- machine learning
- research engineering
- AI safety
- technical AI safety research

### Nice to have
- research paper authoring
- LLMs
- reinforcement learning