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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 1 day AI Security Institute's roles stay open a median of 14 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of AI Security Institute's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at AI Security Institute
- moderate 4 stale, 1 reposted of 12 open
- Hiring momentum
- 15 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Research Engineer in the Human Influence team will focus on understanding how AI influences human behavior and decision-making. Daily tasks will involve designing and building Reinforcement Learning environments, leveraging interpretability methods, and developing scalable evaluation systems for AI models. The role requires a blend of research and engineering skills to deliver impactful projects that address AI safety and human influence.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Proven experience deploying a benchmark, evaluation, or product to users
- Clear understanding of the current AI safety literature
- Clear and consistent communication
- Clear understanding of fundamental Machine Learning concepts
- Experience fine-tuning or post-training LLMs using standard methods
- Comfortable working with RL environments and using RL or other reward-based methods
Nice to have
- Good understanding of model internals for mechanistic interpretability research
- Experience shipping an AI safety pipeline to production
- Experience using data to answer complex research questions
- Experience with frontend and node.js deployments
What you get
- Impact you couldn't have anywhere else
- Incredibly talented, mission-driven and supportive colleagues
- Direct influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally
- Opportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security
- Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute
- Extensive operational support
Worth weighing
- No specific salary listed, but ranges provided based on levels
- Role involves high-stakes AI safety work which may come with pressure
- Candidates must undergo security clearance checks
- The role is multidisciplinary, which may require adapting to various fields
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Listed by AI Security Institute on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.