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Alice (Formerly ActiveFence)

Senior Responsible AI Researcher

Posted 24 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
Lead frontier AI safety research spanning responsible AI, trust and safety, model evaluation, adversarial robustness, and agentic safety. Design benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, red-teaming methods, and safety research for text, image, multimodal, and autonomous systems. Publish research, collaborate with leading AI labs and academic institutions, advise enterprise clients, translate findings into safety products, and mentor researchers and engineers.
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Description

We are seeking a visionary, highly accomplished Senior Responsible AI Researcher to lead state-of-the-art research initiatives at the intersection of frontier models, Trust & Safety (T&S), model evaluation, and adversarial robustness.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for leading new frontier evaluation and benchmarking projects every six weeks. Successful candidates are expected to drive self-initiated research, design evaluation methodologies for emerging risks (e.g., persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy, agentic safety), and build safety benchmarks across Generative AI modalities (Text, Image, Multimodal, and Autonomous Agents).

Key Responsibilities

1. Frontier AI Safety & Evaluation Research

  • Design, build, and deploy new evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and "Agentic Safety Gyms" to measure model capabilities, vulnerabilities, and alignment across diverse risk domains (e.g., Hate Speech, Misinformation, Elections Preparedness, IP/Copyright, Child Safety).
  • Develop advanced adversarial prompting methodologies, red-teaming strategies, and behavioral suites to stress-test Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal systems, and AI Agents.
  • Investigate emerging safety risks, including model persuasion, manipulation, sycophancy, bias, and jailbreaking tactics across multimodal and autonomous architectures.

2. Research Leadership & Outbound Impact

  • Lead high-impact collaborative research projects with top-tier academic institutions and industry partners (e.g., OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft, Nvidia).
  • Represent the organization as a thought leader and speaker at top-tier international conferences, technical AI safety summits, and industry events.
  • Publish groundbreaking research findings in top AI and safety venues.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market (GTM), Policy and Delivery teams to translate research discoveries into scalable safety products, client-facing offerings, and delivery methodologies.
  • Engage directly with internal stakeholders to translate complex safety and governance requirements into actionable research questions, experiments, and evaluation suites.
Requirements

Must Haves:

Education & Track Record

  • PhD in Computer Science, Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS), Machine Learning, AI Ethics, Social Data Science or a closely related research domain.
  • Proven Research Record: Demonstrated academic excellence with a strong portfolio of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, IEEE, CVPR, or dedicated AI Safety conferences).

Technical & Domain Expertise

  • Deep Domain Expertise: Substantial experience in AI Safety, Responsible AI (RAI), Trust & Safety, or Model Evaluation.
  • Technical Mastery: Strong hands-on capabilities in Python and modern ML/DL frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Transformers).
  • Generative AI & Agentic Systems: Deep working knowledge of foundation models (LLMs, Text-to-Image, Multimodal), agents, reasoning systems, and current safety mitigation techniques.
  • Benchmarking & Methodology: Proven experience in designing datasets, benchmark suites, red-teaming protocols, or synthetic simulation platforms.

Mindset & Soft Skills

  • Ownership & Self-Starter Attitude: Proven track record of self-initiating research projects, bringing in external partnerships, and shaping technical vision.
  • Communication & Engagement: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, executives, and research peers.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Versatility: Ability to operate comfortably across technical data science, social science paradigms, and product execution.

Preferred / Desirable Qualifications

  • Prior employment, consulting, advisory, or formal research collaboration with frontier AI labs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI) or leading safety research collectives (e.g., MATS, GovAI).
  • Experience in domain-specific safety applications, such as election integrity, psychological manipulation, or agentic behavioral safety suites.
About Alice

Alice is a trust, safety, and security company built for the AI era. We safeguard the communicative technologies people use to create, collaborate, and interact- whether with each other or with machines.

In a world where AI has fundamentally changed the nature of risk, Alice provides end-to-end coverage across the entire AI lifecycle. We support frontier model labs, enterprises, and UGC platforms with a comprehensive suite of solutions: from model hardening evaluations and pre-deployment red-teaming to runtime guardrails and ongoing drift detection.

Alice is widely considered a global leader in online safety and AI security. We have some of the most forward-thinking and passionate minds in the world working to safeguard over 3 billion users across the largest AI and tech platforms.

If you're creative and driven to secure the future of AI, we want to hear from you!

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