Research Engineer - Oversight Foundations
Independent nonprofit AI research lab building open technology for understanding and scalable public oversight of AI systems.
About Transluce
Transluce develops research, platforms, and tools to help people understand, evaluate, and steer advanced AI systems in the public interest. Its active offerings include Docent, a behavior-analysis platform for AI-agent transcripts, and Monitor, an AI-driven interface for observing and steering model computations.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and train scalable oversight assistants that predict and detect unexpected AI system behaviors. You will create diverse evaluations, identify undesirable open-source model behaviors, develop training architectures and objectives, and scale training and inference pipelines for very large models.
Requirements
- Language model fine-tuning
- Architecture design
- Evaluation design
- Experimental design
- Programming
- Maintainability
- Communication skills
Responsibilities
- Develop and train scalable oversight assistants
- Create evaluations across a range of difficulties
- Identify interesting and undesirable behaviors in open-source models
- Develop architectures and objectives for oversight-assistant training
- Scale training and inference pipelines for large models
Benefits
- International visa sponsorship