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Research Engineer Intern (Fall 2025)

Center for AI Safety
San Francisco, CA Intern
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2025
Introduction

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and field-building organization on a mission to reduce societal-scale risks from AI. Alongside our sister organization, the CAIS Action Fund, we tackle the toughest AI issues with a mix of technical, societal and policy solutions. Our work includes publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and CEOs from the major AI labs, leading the charge on a major AI safety bill, and running a large compute cluster for global academic researchers working on AI safety research.

As a research engineer intern here, you will work very closely with our researchers on projects in fields such as Trojans, Adversarial Robustness, Power Aversion, Machine Ethics, and Out-of-Distribution Detection. We will assign you a dedicated mentor throughout your internship, but we will ultimately be treating you as a colleague. By this we mean, you will have the opportunity to debate for your own experiments or projects, and defend their impact. You will plan and run experiments, conduct code reviews, and work in a small team to create a publication with outsized impact. You will leverage our internal compute cluster to run experiments at scale on large language models. We hope you will view this opportunity as the start of a long-term collaboration with CAIS.

Timing

This application is for the fall internship position.

Applications are due by May 15th, 2025.

You might be a good fit if you:

  • Are able to read an ML paper, understand the key result, and understand how it fits into the broader literature
  • Are comfortable setting up, launching, and debugging ML experiments
  • Are familiar with relevant frameworks and libraries (e.g., pytorch)
  • Communicate clearly and promptly with teammates
  • Take ownership of your individual part in a project
  • Have co-authored a ML paper in a top conference.


The Center of AI Safety is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Some studies have found that a higher percentage of women and underrepresented minority candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. The Center for AI Safety values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by the position but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!

This internship is unpaid; however, CAIS provides the above stipend to assist with living expenses.

Salary : $8,000 - $19,200

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