Member of Technical Staff, Alignment
Abundant, San Francisco
The role
Frontier labs test their models in environments like ours, which means we are the first to see novel model behavior. You will make sure that alignment is baked into everything the do: the code we deploy, the runbooks we write, and the papers we publish.
What you will do
- Run experiments on how our environments shape behavior: reward hacking, cheating the task, unsafe use of tools, deception over long runs. Then change how we build them.
- Break our own graders. Find the ways to score well without doing the work, close them, and keep the attacks as tests everyone runs.
- Build the tools that watch agents: monitors over trajectories, red team harnesses, and safety benchmarks that stay hard as models improve. On real runs, not toy ones.
- Keep our environments sealed. Network isolation, escapes, credentials, and how much damage an agent can do when it turns on us. Last summer’s failures came from here.
- Choose a research question about oversight, control, or long-horizon autonomy, answer it, and publish. This is part of the job, not something you do at night.