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About the Role
As a Senior Research Scientist, you will lead original technical research in AI safety, advancing the understanding of safe AI systems. You will balance scientific rigor with practical relevance to shape the future of safe AI deployment, producing scientific outputs that inform frontier labs and government institutes.
Responsibilities
- Lead original technical research in AI safety, steering projects from initial research question to high-impact publication.
- Shape the research agenda by identifying high-impact projects that balance scientific rigor with real-world relevance.
- Contribute thought leadership and deep technical expertise to support wider evaluation and red-teaming efforts.
- Support positioning as a global leader through active external engagement with frontier labs and government stakeholders.
- Develop robust, reproducible research code and engineering infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional safety teams to translate fundamental research into practical mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- Strong track record in AI research, evidenced by publications or equivalent experience.
- Ability to tackle open, unsolved problems.
- Capability to own research end-to-end, moving independently from framing novel problems to generating high-quality research artifacts.
- Passion for technical AI safety, whether developed in academia, industry labs, or evaluation roles.
- Deep knowledge of language models and generative AI architectures, including white-box techniques beyond API-level access.
- Strong foundation in machine learning fundamentals, particularly in robustness, explainability, or uncertainty estimation.
- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch.
- Python skills required to build robust research tooling.
Skills
- AI safety
- Language models
- Generative AI architectures
- Machine learning fundamentals
- Robustness
- Explainability
- Uncertainty estimation
- PyTorch
- Python
Location
- Hybrid Working
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Part-time hours
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
- Private healthcare and dental
- Enhanced parental leave
- Family-Friendly Flexibility
- Flexible working
- Sanctus Coaching
About the Company
- Faculty was established in 2014 with the belief that AI would be the most important technology of our time.
- Faculty has worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI.
- Faculty innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI.
- Faculty brings unparalleled depth of technical, product, and delivery expertise to clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defense.
- Faculty's business and reputation are growing rapidly.
- Faculty seeks individuals with intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
- Faculty empowers employees to envision and implement the most powerful applications of AI.
Equal Opportunity
- Faculty aims to grow the best team, not the most similar one, fostering diversity of thought and strengthening the principle of seeking truth.
- Diverse teams deliver better work relevant to the world.
- Faculty is united by deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to use abilities for measurable positive impact.
- Applications are strongly encouraged from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations.