Research Scientist (Control)

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

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

THE OPPORTUNITY

Join our new AGI safety product team and help transform AI control research into practical tools that directly reduce risks from AI. As an Research Scientist (Control), you’ll work closely with Marius (CEO & currently leads the monitoring efforts), other control researchers and product engineers.

We are currently building Watcher, a monitoring tool for coding agents. Our monitoring research agenda attempts to translate compute into safety at scale. You will join a small team and will have significant ability to shape the team & tech, and have the ability to earn responsibility quickly.

You will like this opportunity if you're passionate about using empirical research to make AI systems safer in practice. You enjoy the challenge of translating theoretical AI risks into concrete detection mechanisms. You thrive on rapid iteration and learning from data. You want your research to directly impact real-world AI safety.

🎯 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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