Research Scientist or Engineer
French nonprofit research organization developing quantitative AI-risk tools, evaluating frontier-AI companies’ risk-management practices, and contributing to AI governance and standards.
Funding history
About SaferAI
SaferAI is an independent French association focused on reducing risks from advanced AI. It combines technical AI-risk research, public risk-management ratings for frontier AI companies, and policy and standards work.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop threat models, select and run AI-risk benchmarks, ensure elicitation quality, troubleshoot technical issues, analyze results, and write technical risk reports. You will also develop mitigation demonstrations and tools and support AI labs with mitigation implementation.
Requirements
- Familiarity with AI safety and evaluation methodologies, including capability evaluations, red-teaming, safety cases, and model cards
- Hands-on model-evaluation experience, including elicitation, LLM provider APIs, and Inspect AI
- M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, AI safety, or a related technical field
- 1+ years of hands-on AI systems, deployment, or safety-engineering experience
- Experience delivering projects in fast-paced, evolving environments
- Technical communication ability
- Ability to produce clear written deliverables under time pressure and incomplete information
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, asynchronous, international environment
- Alignment with AI risk-management and safety goals
Responsibilities
- Develop threat models
- Identify risk-relevant benchmarks
- Run benchmarks on AI models
- Ensure strong elicitation and quality control
- Debug technical issues
- Analyze results and draw risk conclusions
- Write high-quality technical reports
- Develop safety-mitigation demonstrations, products, and tools
- Support AI labs with mitigation implementation
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Retirement plans adapted to the location
- 50% transportation-home-to-work coverage
- Productivity expenditures up to €2k annually
- Office space if relevant
Hiring Process
Initial screening → first interview → paid work test → interviews → final 3-day paid work trial