AI Safety & Governance Full-time

Research Lead, Pre-Training Safety

FAR AI

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Posted

Sep 10, 2026

Location

Remote

Type

Full-time

Compensation

$290000 – $450000 per year

Job description

Role details

  • In this role, you'll lead pre-training safety research, focusing on removing harmful capabilities from models at their source.
  • Build and lead a team to scale methods like Deep Ignorance to frontier-scale models using data filtering and gradient routing.
  • Conduct novel research to isolate and remove dual-use capabilities from model components and reduce loss-of-control risks.
  • Partner with red teams to stress-test models and analyze how safety methods scale to superhuman AI systems.

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FAR AI aims to ensure AI systems are trustworthy and beneficial to society. They incubate and accelerate research agendas that are too resource-intensive for academia but not yet ready for commercialisation by industry.