AI Security & Control Researcher

🏢 Apollo Research · 📍 London & San Francisco · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full-time

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

THE OPPORTUNITY

THE OPPORTUNITY

Apollo Research works with most frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines and others) to test their models before deployment and collaborate on fundamental scheming research. Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production and monitors billions of agent tokens per month across engineering teams at agent-building scale-ups and enterprises.

We are looking for a security & control expert to help us design better threat models and control protocols against AI adversaries, and improve the effectiveness and security of Watcher.

This is truly a "start-up role" in the sense that you have significant say in shaping the direction of the role. This is an individual contributor role but could lead to management responsibilities eventually, if desired.

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Apollo Research Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Rigorous assessment of frontier AI safety mechanisms, mechanistic interpretability of neural networks, and academic research rigor.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Downplaying existential risks or safety concerns associated with advanced AI deployment
2. Lack of deep technical familiarity with neural network internals or transformer architectures
3. Prioritizing speed of deployment over thorough, scientifically sound safety testing

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I advance frontier AI safety by combining rigorous mechanistic interpretability with empirical evaluations of complex neural systems.

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