{"slug": "google-is-actively-hiring-someone-to-save-the-world-from-agi-asi", "title": "Google is actively hiring someone to save the world from AGI/ASI", "summary": "Google's DeepMind is hiring a Research Engineer for its AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) in San Francisco, Mountain View, or New York, offering a salary of $174,000–$253,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits, to research methods that reduce existential and catastrophic risks from AGI and ASI. The role involves developing adversarially robust control systems, studying alignment failures, and applying interpretability techniques to frontier models, with preferred experience in RLHF and large-model training.", "body_md": "## Research Engineer, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind\n\n*link*Copy link*email*Email a friend\n\n*corporate_fare*DeepMind\n\n*place*San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; +2 more; +1 more\n\n*info_outline*\n\n**San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA**.\n\n### Minimum qualifications:\n\n- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related Software Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.\n- 3 years of experience in software development, ML engineering, or ML research.\n- Experience working with research teams.\n\n### Preferred qualifications:\n\n- Experience conducting or contributing to applied research to improve the safety and alignment of frontier AI systems.\n- Experience with training large models (e.g., supervised fine-tuning, RLHF).\n\n### About the job\n\nThe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) aims to reduce existential and catastrophic risk from AGI and eventually Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). We research novel techniques and work with the rest of GDM and Google to apply them.\n\nArtificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.\n\nUS: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits\n\nLearn more about\n\n[benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).\n\n### Responsibilities\n\n- Research new alignment methods, studying alignment failures, and applying AGI-scalable alignment techniques to frontier models.\n- Develop adversarially robust AGI control systems and implement them in production.\n- Research interpretability techniques to understand what AI systems are thinking.\n- Work with product teams to ensure that our research is correctly adopted.\n\nInformation collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google's [Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy](./privacy-policy).\n\nGoogle is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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