Researcher, Multimodal Safety

Skills

About the Role

You will advance multimodal safety research across text, vision, and audio, connecting perception and semantic understanding to safe model behavior. You will build post-training and evaluation methods for VLMs and collaborate with Personal AGI, Consumer Devices, and product and model teams to deliver safer multimodal experiences.

Requirements

• Track record of building or advancing multimodal models, with depth in vision-language models, video understanding, image generation, audio, or multimodal reasoning
• Understanding of multimodal systems end to end, from encoders and modality fusion to cross-modal reasoning
• Experience improving model behavior through post-training such as SFT, RL, data curation, synthetic data, and evaluation
• Strong research and engineering judgment on open-ended safety problems

Responsibilities

• Define and advance multimodal safety research for text, vision, and audio
• Build training and evaluation methods for VLMs, including post-training, safety evals, and interventions
• Collaborate with Personal AGI, Consumer Devices, and product and model teams to translate research into safer multimodal experiences

Benefits

• Hybrid work model
• Relocation assistance
• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
• Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
• Flexible PTO
• 13+ paid company holidays and company 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
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
• Performance-related bonus