Research Engineer, Novel AI Platforms for Multiscale Alignment

Develop novel AI platforms and agent systems addressing alignment challenges while combining infrastructure engineering with safety research.
- Design and implement architectures for multi-agent execution environments, conflict resolution mechanisms, and cooperative AI systems with alignment properties.
- Develop optimization algorithms, testing frameworks, and middleware components to validate theoretical alignment approaches and facilitate secure agent communication.
- Build reusable software platforms supporting safety research, internal tools, and community resources for AI alignment investigation.
- Requires MS/PhD in Computer Science or AI (or equivalent); strong Python and Java skills; experience with multi-agent systems, dynamic decision-making, or AI platforms; familiarity with AI alignment and control techniques.
- Full-time contract role; remote, open globally (U.S.-based employees receive benefits; international candidates engaged as independent contractors).

The Future of Life Foundation aims to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. To do so, they aim to identify especially promising ideas for new organisations, cause those entities to be founded, and incubate them.