Founding Researcher

Join an early-stage AI safety research team working to develop AI systems that follow laws and legal standards. You will lead research projects from initial design through publication building on collaboration with legal experts and academic advisors.

• Design and run experiments to evaluate train and control AI agents for legal compliance.
• Build evaluation environments training pipelines and runtime harnesses for agent research.
• Develop realistic simulated scenarios from court decisions and legal rules.
• Investigate how agents handle conflicting obligations overlapping jurisdictions and legal standards that require judgment.
• Work with legal experts to ground research in practice then publish findings and release benchmarks and tools.

• Two to eight years of experience advancing AI through research ML engineering or related work.
• A degree in computer science machine learning or a related field or equivalent research experience.
• Experience with LLM or agent evaluations training environments post-training pipelines or AI safety and alignment.
• Hands-on experience building evaluation harnesses reinforcement learning environments or training pipelines.
• Strong Python skills and fluency with the modern ML stack including production engineering experience.
• A builder-first approach with experience writing code and shipping research or engineering work.
• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Base salary is $185000 to $210000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

This is an on-site role in San Francisco California.