Alignment Scientist/Engineer
AE Studio (AE.STUDIO) is a bootstrapped software studio founded in 2016 that combines frontier AI alignment research with high-stakes production AI engineering. The team of 150 senior professionals builds AI-native products, custom ML models, and internal AI systems for enterprise, PE/portfolio, mid-market, and startup clients across industries like aviation, edtech, medical devices, and manufacturing.
Projects
About AE Studio
AE Studio operates as an applied AI and software engineering firm that ships production AI systems for clients while also conducting frontier alignment research in collaboration with organizations like DARPA and Anthropic. Bootstrapped since 2016 with no outside investors, the company emphasizes independence that allows it to fund alignment research and select projects it believes in. Its client work spans building AI-native products, custom machine learning models, agentic automations, evals and red-teaming, observability tooling, and knowledge graphs, delivered by senior pods embedded directly with client teams. Notable projects include pricing and marketing AI for Azul Airlines, an AI-native learning platform for Alpha School, production software for Blackrock Neurotech's brain-computer interface, and AI document ingestion automation for Global Shop Solutions. The company serves a range of clients including large enterprises navigating procurement and architecture review, private equity portfolios seeking value creation, mid-market businesses focused on operations and margins, and startups needing founder-level velocity.
Skills
About the Role
You'll work autonomously in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment as a high-agency technical generalist. You'll guide the direction of research alongside external collaborators, working on ambitious alignment directions such as pretraining interventions for model safety, novel interpretability techniques, and neuroscience-inspired approaches to alignment. You'll call AI model APIs, build and train deep learning models, and use AI tools to automate your own workflow.
Requirements
- Experienced in ML research, alignment research, or both
- Deeply passionate about AI alignment and belief that genuine progress is possible
- Excellent at Python, Pytorch, and the modern deep learning stack
- Knowledgeable about building, training, or evaluating deep learning models
- Comfortable calling AI model APIs via REST or client libraries
- Adept at decomposing complex problems into concrete, testable experiments
- AI-native, and eager to use AI tools to automate workflow
- Thrives in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Adept in English and comfortable communicating technical work to all audiences
Responsibilities
- Guide the direction of research alongside collaborators
- Research pretraining interventions for model safety
- Develop novel interpretability techniques
- Explore neuroscience-inspired approaches to alignment
- Build, train, and evaluate deep learning models
- Call AI model APIs via REST or client libraries
- Decompose complex problems into concrete, testable experiments
- Communicate technical work to all audiences
Benefits
- Remote-first with flexible schedules
- Health insurance
- Free lunches at the office
- Weekly knowledge-sharing talks
- Annual team retreat
- Regular performance-based raises
- Diversified employee equity program