Software Engineer, Infrastructure, InterpretabilityPosted today$320K

Hybrid · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYTechnology

The opportunity

When you see what modern language models are capable of, do you wonder, "How do these things work? How can we trust them?

What you'll do

  • Our Research blog: covering advances including Monosemantic Features and Circuits

  • An Intro to Interpretability from our research lead, Chris Olah

  • The Urgency of Interpretability from CEO Dario Amodei

  • Engineering Challenges Scaling Interpretability: directly relevant to this role

  • Minutes segment: see a demo of tooling our team built

  • New Yorker article: what it's like to work on one of AI's hardest open problems

What they're looking for

  • Security : design the secure-by-default environments and access patterns that: enable deep model access for an organization whose research requires it - done well, the same design improves both our security posture and research productivity.
  • Privacy : build data-access patterns that ensure policy adherence as our: research moves from theory into practical application
  • Data & Compute Management: manage research data at petabyte scale and make efficient use of large accelerator fleets - storage lifecycle, capacity planning, and scheduling.
  • Developer experience: agentic engineering, tooling and observability that keep researchers moving fast