Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety

The role

This person will identify and mitigate risks from scientific superintelligence by building research methods and tools. They will focus on misuse, developing automated red-teaming approaches and safety automation for scientific workflows.

What you will do

• Develop and run capability evaluations of scientific models, agents and tool-mediated workflows
• Create methods or systems that explore diverse failure modes
• Build reproducible experiments and evaluation tools
• Measure the quality and coverage of automated assessments
• Develop broader safety automation across threat model management, evidence triage, regression testing, monitoring workflows or tools
• Collaborate with risk researchers and mitigation engineers to translate findings into improved assessments and safeguards

Required qualifications

• Strong empirical judgment
• Practical programming ability
• Experience working with modern AI systems
• Ability to investigate ambiguous failures, design informative comparisons and communicate limitations clearly
• An interest in scientific misuse risks
• Ability to collaborate productively with domain specialists
• For Research Scientist: evidence of selecting valuable research questions, developing or adapting methods, and designing experiments that yield defensible conclusions
• For Research Scientist: ability to prototype and test ideas
• For Research Engineer: evidence of building reliable research software, evaluation infrastructure or agent systems
• For Research Engineer: ability to contribute to experimental design and interpretation

Nice to have

• Automated red teaming, adversarial testing or evaluation-method research
• Scientific AI, tool-using agents, laboratory automation or other complex environments
• Experience with safety monitoring, model-based evaluators or scalable experimental infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company builds systems that can learn for themselves by combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments.