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Interpretability

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Look inside a model: probes, features, sparse autoencoders and circuits.

Mentioned in 21 of 339 recorded research roles (6%) and 63 of 1,827 technical roles (3%), in this recorded board.

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Nothing on this site teaches it yet. It is listed so you can see how often labs ask for it, and the course in preparation above has a sign-up.

Also in Train models: How language models work, Post-training and fine-tuning, Reinforcement learning, RL environments and verifiers, Pretraining and scaling laws, Alignment research, Multimodal models.

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Recorded roles that mention it

63 recorded postings mention it. Here are the newest 27 research, fellowship, applied and ML-systems roles; the rest are on the role pages linked above. Each title opens the lab's own posting.

  1. [Expression of Interest] Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment - London ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  2. [Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base

  3. Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security ↗

    Anthropic · Fellowships, residencies and internships · No degree stated

  4. Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base

  5. ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base

  6. Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base

  7. Research Engineer, Interpretability ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $315k to $560k base

  8. Research Scientist, Interpretability ↗

    Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base

  9. Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated

  10. Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure ↗

    Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base

  11. Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment ↗

    Character.AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $225k to $400k base

  12. Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager, Frontier and AGI Security, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  13. Research Scientist, AGI Safety and Alignment, DeepMind ↗

    Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent

  14. Research Leader (DMPK), Cambridge, MA ↗

    Isomorphic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required

  15. Research Leader (Toxicology), Cambridge, MA ↗

    Isomorphic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated

  16. Research Leader / Senior Scientist (In vitro / Cellular Pharmacology), Cambridge, MA ↗

    Isomorphic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required

  17. Research Leader / Senior Scientist (In vivo Pharmacology & Translational Sciences), Cambridge, MA ↗

    Isomorphic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required

  18. AI Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security ↗

    Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience

  19. Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability ↗

    OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $295k to $500k base

  20. Researcher, Alignment Interpretability ↗

    OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $295k to $500k base

  21. Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations ↗

    OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base

  22. Researcher, Interpretability ↗

    OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base

  23. Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling ↗

    OpenAI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $266k to $445k base

  24. Research Associate, Thin Films ↗

    Periodic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required · $180k to $225k base

  25. Research Engineer, Semiconductor ↗

    Periodic Labs · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required · $220k to $300k base

  26. Research Intern, Thin Films ↗

    Periodic Labs · Fellowships, residencies and internships · Bachelor's degree

  27. Member of Technical Staff - Safety ↗

    Reflection AI · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent