Research Engineer
Resolution is an independent nonprofit AI-alignment research institute that combines theory, empirics, and research automation to pursue higher confidence in aligned advanced AI.
About Resolution
Resolution conducts AI-alignment research, with work spanning scalable oversight, learning theory, agent foundations, interpretability-related research, and automation. It was formed from Timaeus Research and researchers from the UK AISI Alignment Team, with a major in-person presence in Berkeley.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build agentic research infrastructure, including experiment orchestration, hypothesis generation, automated analysis, autoformalization tools, and internal AI tools. You may embed with a research program to scale experiments and create specialized infrastructure. You will maintain distributed training, experimentation, and evaluation systems; contribute to shared codebases; and communicate progress, obstacles, and lessons through Slack and weekly meetings.
Requirements
- Production-quality Python
- ML framework experience with PyTorch or Jax
- Distributed-training stack experience
- Ability to ship complex systems end-to-end
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field
- Ability to use AI tools carefully in the workflow
- Motivation to work on artificial superintelligence alignment full-time
Responsibilities
- Build agentic research infrastructure, experiment orchestration, hypothesis generation, automated analysis pipelines, autoformalization tooling, and internal AI tools
- Scale program experiments and build program-specific infrastructure
- Maintain and extend distributed training, experiment, and evaluation infrastructure
- Contribute to and maintain shared codebases
- Communicate engineering and automation progress, obstacles, and learnings
Benefits
- 5 weeks of paid vacation in addition to public holidays
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited sick leave
- Unconditional 401(k) contribution equal to 4% of salary
- Visa sponsorship for relocation to Berkeley
Hiring Process
Application review → 90-minute CodeSignal → 15-minute screening call → 45-minute technical interview → 60-minute experience interview → 60-minute technical interview → 1-on-1s → references.