Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability

Skills

About the Role

You will design and run empirical studies of chain-of-thought monitorability, build evaluations, and investigate how training interventions affect monitorability. You will analyze model behavior, translate findings into practical monitoring approaches for real training runs, and collaborate across research and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience training, evaluating, or debugging large ML models, especially LLMs
• Depth in alignment, interpretability, model behavior, empirical ML, or adjacent research
• Ability to turn ambiguous research questions into measurable experiments
• Ability to move between research ideation and engineering execution
• Chain-of-thought interpretability experience welcome but not required

Responsibilities

• Design and run empirical studies of chain-of-thought monitorability across frontier reasoning models
• Build evaluations that measure whether monitors can predict properties of interest, including high-stakes misbehavior
• Investigate how pre-training, synthetic data, mid-training, post-training, and RL affect monitorability
• Analyze model behavior and turn monitoring observations into hypotheses, experiments, and recommendations
• Translate research findings into practical monitoring and oversight approaches for training runs
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers across training, alignment evaluations, monitoring, and frontier-risk work
• Produce externally publishable research

Benefits

• Equity
• Performance-related bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends