Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure, InterpretabilityActive$405K

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