Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety

The role

You will lead original technical research in AI safety to advance the understanding of safe AI systems. You will produce scientific outputs like peer-reviewed publications and technical tooling to inform frontier labs and government institutes.

What you will do

• Leading original technical research in AI safety.
• Shaping the research agenda by identifying high-impact projects.
• Contributing thought leadership and deep technical expertise to support evaluation and red-teaming efforts.
• Supporting positioning as a global leader through active external engagement.
• Developing robust, reproducible research code and engineering infrastructure.
• Collaborating with cross-functional safety teams to translate research into practical mitigation strategies.

Required qualifications

• Strong track record in AI research, evidenced by publications or equivalent experience.
• Capability to own research end-to-end.
• Passion for technical AI safety.
• 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.

About the company

Faculty was established in 2014 to transform performance through human-centric AI. They work with over 350 global customers across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.