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Alignment research
Not taught here
Oversight, honesty and making a model's goals match ours.
Mentioned in 34 of 338 recorded research roles (10%) and 46 of 1,837 technical roles (3%), as of October 2, 2026.
Learn it here
This site does not teach it. It is tracked here so you can see how often labs ask for it.
These counts describe the October 2, 2026 snapshot; postings need a fresh check. Explore opportunities.
Everything here that teaches it
Nothing on this site teaches it yet. It is listed so you can see how often labs ask for it.
Also in Train models: How language models work, Post-training and fine-tuning, Reinforcement learning, RL environments and verifiers, Pretraining and scaling laws, Interpretability, Multimodal models.
Who asks for it
- Research scientists and engineers 34 of 338
- Fellowships, residencies and internships 2 of 44
- Applied AI and forward-deployed 1 of 323
- ML systems and infrastructure 2 of 109
- Machine learning engineers 2 of 146
- Software engineering at labs 5 of 877
Recorded roles that mention it
46 recorded postings mention it. Here are the newest 39 research, fellowship, applied and ML-systems roles; the rest are on the role pages linked above. Each title opens the lab's own posting.
- Research Engineer, Post-Training ↗
Cognition · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Staff Research Engineer (LLM Pre-Training) ↗
JetBrains (Junie, Mellum) · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- AI Research Engineer, Post-Training ↗
Lovable · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineering Lead ↗
Lovable · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Forward Deployed Engineer ↗
Warp · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $200k to $250k base
- [Expression of Interest] Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment - London ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security ↗
Anthropic · Fellowships, residencies and internships · No degree stated
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base
- Research Engineer, Post-Training Model Evaluations ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base
- Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Scientist, Interpretability ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Software Engineer, Research Tools ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $300k to $405k base
- Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Inference Path ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Researcher, Evals ↗
Cartesia · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $220k to $350k base
- Researcher, Post Training ↗
Cartesia · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $180k to $350k base
- Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training ↗
Character.AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $275k to $400k base
- Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment ↗
Character.AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $225k to $400k base
- Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Responsible Frontier AI Research, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Scientist, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Research Scientist, Gemini Agent Safety, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Gemini Horizon, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training ↗
Inflection AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $400k to $550k base
- Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied ↗
Liquid AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- AI Research Scientist - MSL FAIR Alignment ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- AI Research Scientist —Generative AI for Materials Discovery ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- AI Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Visiting Scholar — Post Training & Research (Discovery AI Lab) ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required
- Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $295k to $445k base
- Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Alignment ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $295k to $500k base
- Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $295k to $500k base
- Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Safety Oversight ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base
- Member of Technical Staff - Safety ↗
Reflection AI · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent
- Research, Safety ↗
Thinking Machines Lab · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base
- Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety ↗
xAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $180k to $440k base
- Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL ↗
xAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $180k to $600k base
