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METR ยท 3 weeks ago

(Senior) Research Engineer / Research Scientist

positionBerkeley
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$250K/yr - $450K/yr

METR is a nonprofit research organization focused on developing scientific methods to assess AI capabilities and risks. They are seeking a Senior Research Engineer or Research Scientist to investigate AI capabilities and improve measurement metrics related to AI progress.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)CharityNon Profit
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H1B Sponsorednote

Responsibilities

Lead a project investigating transcripts as a source of evidence about agent capabilities
Create metrics that speak to the degree of uplift AI agents provide, and collect these metrics from AI R&D-relevant companies
Improve METR's time-horizon metric to make it more externally valid, more interpretable, and more predictive on threat-model relevant capabilities
Design and build experiments testing agent capabilities in the wild
Lead large-scale human-subjects experiments measuring the impacts of AI agents on economically-valuable R&D

Qualification

PythonData analysisResearch proposal critiqueLLM interactionWritten communicationReliabilityProblem-solving

Required

You can write code
You should be able to quickly write a data analysis script in Python to answer an important question
You're excited to get your hands dirty
You are undaunted by open-ended mandates
You should be able to read, understand, and critique a research proposal
You're a good written communicator
You work fast and are highly reliable

Preferred

Bonus points if you can write a clean PR too
Bonus points if you can write a great paper

Company

METR

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METR is a research non-profit that develops evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
dateFounded in 2022
location
Berkeley, CA, US
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://metr.org

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Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
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