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Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety
Lila Sciences
Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USAPosted Oct 21, 2026 · 3h ago$180K – $298K
Full-time$180K – $298KMid levelAI / ML
About this role
Join Lila Sciences as a Research Scientist or Engineer focused on AI safety for scientific superintelligence. You will develop and implement novel methods for evaluating and mitigating risks in advanced AI systems, ensuring their safe deployment. This role involves building automated red-teaming approaches and safety systems to protect against misuse while preserving scientific discovery capabilities.
What we are looking for
6- Develop and run capability evaluations for scientific AI models and workflows
- Create adaptive methods for exploring diverse failure modes
- Build reproducible experiments and evaluation tools
- Develop broader safety automation across threat modeling and monitoring
- Collaborate with risk researchers and mitigation engineers
- Strong empirical judgment and programming ability with modern AI systems