Research Intern AI Safety
Montreal-based non-profit academic AI research institute advancing machine learning through open-science research, talent development, technology transfer, responsible AI, and industry innovation.
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About Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Mila is a non-profit AI research hub created through collaboration between Université de Montréal and McGill University, with Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal. Its community conducts machine-learning research and supports AI adoption, training, and technology transfer.
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About the Role
You will design and implement AI safety guardrails for public safety, including dynamic benchmarking, red-team simulations, harm detection, and automated evaluation. You will document and publish research, collaborate on experiment design and technology integration, identify applied research opportunities, and optimize model research, training, and inference.
Requirements
- AI research experience
- Multiple publications at major conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR
- Applied AI safety research
- Scientific communication
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI safety guardrails for public safety
- Develop dynamic benchmarking, red-team simulations, harm detection, and automated evaluation
- Create internal technical documentation and write a scientific manuscript
- Collaborate with product managers on experiment-design requirements
- Select, evaluate, and integrate AI technologies with researchers
- Identify applied research opportunities from prototypes and user feedback
- Optimize research, model training, and inference processes