Member of Technical Staff, Safety
Abundant · San Francisco
About this role
## About Abundant Abundant (https://abundant.ai) is a research lab focused on identifying approaches to solve the longest-horizon tasks. The team is highly talent-dense and united behind a long-term approach to building businesses. ## The Role — Member of Technical Staff (Safety) As a Member of Technical Staff with a focus on Safety, you will work directly with Abundant’s founding team to ensure the research we produce is conducted responsibly and benefits society as a whole. You will embed AI safety principles into all company workflows and products. ## What You’ll Do - **Foundational Capability Research & Execution:** Architect and execute research nested within Abundant’s focus areas (long-horizon and simulation). - **Drive the Conversation:** Establish Abundant as a leader in **AI post-training safety**. - **Build Novel Tooling:** Identify opportunities to build tooling that advances Abundant’s safety goals. ## Who You Are - **Exceptional Research Depth & Strategic Vision:** A **PhD** in a related field (e.g., CS, ML, NLP) with a world-class publication record (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) is preferred. - You have the velocity to master complex fields and a proven track record in productizing research, including high-stakes evaluation, large-scale benchmarking, and product feature development. - **Proven Experience Shipping Research to Production:** Experience delivering research directly to production and live systems, especially advanced post-training, distillation, and high-stakes evaluation methodologies. - **Large-Scale Agent Systems:** Experience with orchestration frameworks, tool APIs, distributed execution, observability, and logging infrastructure. - **Strategic & Ethical Leadership:** A thoughtful, strategic perspective on the societal and safety impacts of deploying general-purpose AI systems. - Experience advising on or shaping governmental policy related to AI safety and governance is preferred. ## Compensation - **Base Salary:** $250,000 – $450,000 - **Cash Bonus:** Sizable performance bonus tied to project and company milestones - **Equity:** Generous early-stage grant - **Benefits:** Health, dental, vision + flexible PTO
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