AI Lead Safety Researcher
AI Lead Safety Researcher
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About TaskUs: TaskUs is a provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to fast-growing technology companies helping its clients represent protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure TaskUs serves clients in the fastest-growing sectors including social media e-commerce gaming streaming media food delivery ride-sharing HiTech FinTech and HealthTech.
The People First culture at TaskUs has enabled the company to expand its workforce to approximately 45000 employees globally. Presently we have a presence in twenty-three locations across twelve countries which include the Philippines India and the United States.
It started with one ridiculously good idea to create a different breed of Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO)! We at TaskUs understand that achieving growth for our partners requires a culture of constant motion exploring new technologies being ready to handle any challenge at a moments notice and mastering consistency in an ever-changing world.
What We Offer: At TaskUs we prioritize our employees well-being by offering competitive industry salaries and comprehensive benefits packages. Our commitment to a People First culture is reflected in the various departments we have established including Total Rewards Wellness HR and Diversity. We take pride in our inclusive environment and positive impact on the community. Moreover we actively encourage internal mobility and professional growth at all stages of an employees career within TaskUs. Join our team today and experience firsthand our dedication to supporting People First.
Why this role exists
Frontier AI systems evolve daily and realworld safety has to keep pace. TaskUs powers applied AI safety for top model builders and application developers and were scaling our research bench to stay ahead of the curve. As an AI Safety Researcher youll design experiments prototype interventions and publish findings that turn cuttingedge theory into practical tools for our clients.
The impact youll make
Advance the science: Contribute novel insights on alignment robustness and interpretability.
Ship what you publish: Turn research prototypes into evaluation libraries and clientready benchmarks adopted in production engagements.
Strengthen our services: Provide deepdive analyses and redteaming support that raise the bar on every TaskUs delivery project.
What youll do
Design and run experiments on jailbreak detection promptsafety evaluation bias / toxicity measurement and drift monitoring.
Prototype safety interventions in Python using PyTorch / JAX / TensorFlow and libraries like LangChain or Tracr.
Collaborate with your teams to refine hypotheses share results and prepare submissions to venues such as AIES FAccT or NeurIPS workshops.
Support client projects by generating custom test suites redteam prompts or interpretability reports under tight timelines.
Document findings in clear technical reports internal wikis and clientfacing readouts.
Keep a pulse on daily advances in AI safety summarising relevant papers and opensource releases for the broader team.
Experiences youll bring
35 years of handson ML or AI research / engineering experience including 1 year focused on safety robustness or trustworthy AI.
MS in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field or equivalent industry research background.
Demonstrated work with large language models: finetuning evaluation or safety assessments.
At least one peerreviewed paper preprint or substantial internal research project.
Proficiency in Python and one deeplearning framework (PyTorch TensorFlow or JAX).
Core skills youll need
Experimental design & analysishypothesis framing statistics and reproducibility.
Prompt & policy evaluation adversarial testing and basic mechanistic interpretability.
Rapid prototypingcomfortable iterating quickly to test new ideas.
Clear communicationconcise technical writing and slide decks for both researchers and clients.
Collaboration & agilitywillingness to jump onto a client request or pivot research focus as priorities shift.
Nice to have: Exposure to privacypreserving ML or familiarity with NIST RMF / EU AI Act requirements.
Why youll love this role
Work remote
Dual track: Publish highquality research and see it deployed in weeks not years.
Mentorship & growth: Work closely with a great team and expand your impact as the team grows.
Fast lane to innovation: Daily access to frontier models and real client problems most researchers never see.
Mission first: Help shape AI systems that are not only powerful but also safe and trustworthy.
Ready to put your research in the hands of real users
Apply today and help build the future of trusted AI.
How We Partner To Protect You: TaskUs will neither solicit money from you during your application process nor require any form of payment in order to proceed with your application. Kindly ensure that you are always in communication with only authorized recruiters of TaskUs.
DEI: In TaskUs we believe that innovation and higher performance are brought by people from all walks of life. We welcome applicants of different backgrounds demographics and circumstances. Inclusive and equitable practices are our responsibility as a business. TaskUs is committed to providing equal access to opportunities. If you need reasonable accommodations in any part of the hiring process please let us know.
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