FIResearch Engineer - Novel AI Platforms for Multiscale Alignment
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to steering transformative technologies towards benefiting humanity and reducing large-scale risks.
About CARMAThe Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) works to help society navigate the complex and potentially catastrophic risks arising from increasingly powerful AI systems. Our mission is specifically to lower the risks to humanity and the biosphere from transformative AI.We focus on grounding AI risk management in rigorous analysis, developing policy frameworks that squarely address AGI, advancing technical safety approaches, and fostering global perspectives on durable safety. Through these complementary approaches, CARMA aims to provide critical support to society for managing the outsized risks from advanced AI before they materialize.CARMA is a fiscally-sponsored project of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation.
Responsibilities• Research and develop AI systems and platforms variously for: safety research, internal tooling, and safety community support• Design and implement architectures for agent execution environments and interaction platforms• Develop optimization algorithms for multi-objective and cooperative AI systems• Create mechanisms for conflict resolution and preference aggregation in multi-agent settings• Implement testing frameworks and example environments to validate theoretical approaches• Build middleware components that facilitate secure and efficient agent communication• Architect and develop reusable software components for AI alignment research• Document system architectures, APIs, and implementation details• Collaborate on technical publications and research presentations• Contribute to both practical implementations and theoretical research in AI alignment• Support the evaluation and refinement of research prototypes
Required Qualifications• MS or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field (or equivalent experience)• Background in agent-based systems, multi-agent environments, or AI builder platforms• Strong programming skills in both Python and Java• Demonstrated ability to relatively independently drive technical projects from concept to implementation• Familiarity with techniques for AI alignment, control, safety, or related research areas• Experience developing middleware, frameworks, or platforms• Previous work on multi-criteria decision making• Experience in machine learning and semi-formal semantics • Excellent communication skills and technical documentation abilities
Preferred Qualifications• Publications in AI alignment, AI safety, or related research areas• Experience with LLMs and integrating them into agent architectures• Developed novel multi-agent architectures• Familiarity with varied multi-objective optimization techniques• Experience with distributed systems and platform development• Knowledge of security and encryption methods for multi-party computation• Understanding of basic game theory and/or social choice theory concepts• Familiarity with metacognitive systems, metareasoning, or dynamical cognitive approaches• Experience with contextual pragmatics and/or constraint satisfaction problems• Demonstrable open source project contributions• Experience building systems that actively manage trade-offs between competing objectives
CARMA/SEE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, gender reassignment, partnership status, maternity, or sexual orientation. We are, by policy and action, an inclusive organization and actively promote equal opportunities for all humans with the right mix of talent, knowledge, skills, attitude, and potential, so hiring is only based on individual merit for the job. Our organization operates through a fiscal sponsor whose infrastructure only supports persons authorized to work in the U.S. as employees. Candidates outside the U.S. would be engaged as independent contractors with project-focused responsibilities. Note that we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
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The Future of Life Institute's mission is to steer transformative technologies away from extreme, large-scale risks and towards benefiting life. Our work focuses on ensuring that these technologies serve humanity and mitigate potential adverse effects.
We are best known for developing the Asilomar AI governance principles, which guide the safe and beneficial development of AI technologies. We also curate a library of content to educate the public on issues related to transformative technology and the associated risks. Through collaboration with experts from various fields, we aim to create a roadmap for the safe advancement of technologies that could fundamentally change human life.
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