Research Scientist (Control)

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Apollo Research, an AI safety organisation, is hiring a Research Scientist for its new product team. The team is building Watcher, a tool that monitors AI coding agents for unsafe or insecure behaviour. This role is offered in London or San Francisco.

What you would do:

• Design and run experiments to test how well monitors catch different agent failures
• Build evaluation frameworks and high-quality datasets for training and testing monitors
• Fine-tune open-source models into efficient monitors for large production systems
• Build agent-based monitoring systems that investigate logs to find known and new failures
• Feed findings from red-teaming back into monitor design

What they ask for:

• 2+ years of empirical research with large language models or AI systems
• Strong experience with AI coding agents and LLM-as-a-judge or AI monitoring
• Experience designing experiments and iterating on results
• Strong Python skills and the ability to work independently on open research problems

The employer does not state the salary on the job page. Hours: full time.

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