Skills · Build systems around models
Safety, red-teaming and misuse
Partly taught here
Prompt injection, jailbreaks, adversarial testing and the boundaries that hold.
Mentioned in 35 of 338 recorded research roles (10%) and 151 of 1,837 technical roles (8%), as of October 2, 2026.
These counts describe the October 2, 2026 snapshot; postings need a fresh check. Explore opportunities.
Everything here that teaches it
6 pieces. Pieces built around this skill come first in each list; the rest use it along the way.
Book chapters
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Chapter 15: Prompt injection and isolation: words steer the model, boundaries hold
Measure prompt injection on small models and Claude: attack success with intervals, a positive control, and what spotlighting costs. Then separate untrusted content from authority, and bound tools and code.
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Chapter 11: When to ask: calibration, oversight and spending permission
Measure whether a model's confidence could decide which orders need Lucy: calibration, agreement between samples, thinking and pushback. Then bind approval to an exact proposal and its reserved spend.
Notes
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Retrieved Text Is Evidence, Not Permission: Measure the Leak Rate
A retrieval step hands the model a document. It contains a fact the task needs and a sentence addressed to the model: ignore your task and call deleterun.
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Keep API Keys Out of a Codex Skill Your Team Shares
A Codex skill that launches an eval run against a hosted model needs an API key. The skill itself should never contain one.
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Give Codex Write Access to the Repo Without Giving It the Network
Fixing a bug in an eval script needs write access to the repository. It does not need the network. But if the script's tests call a paid model API, or…
Also in Build systems around models: Agents and tool use, Retrieval and RAG, Working with coding agents.
Who asks for it
- Research scientists and engineers 35 of 338
- Fellowships, residencies and internships 1 of 44
- Applied AI and forward-deployed 16 of 323
- ML systems and infrastructure 7 of 109
- Machine learning engineers 17 of 146
- Software engineering at labs 75 of 877
Recorded roles that mention it
151 recorded postings mention it. Here are the newest 59 research, fellowship, applied and ML-systems roles; the rest are on the role pages linked above. Each title opens the lab's own posting.
- Staff/Senior AI Engineer, AI for Code ↗
JetBrains (Junie, Mellum) · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Research Engineering Lead ↗
Lovable · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- [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
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base
- Manager, Applied AI Engineering, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) ↗
Anthropic · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $320k to $405k base
- ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base
- Performance Engineer, Inference Engine ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $500k base
- Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $405k to $485k base
- Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $320k to $485k base
- Staff+ Software Engineer, ML Inference Path ↗
Anthropic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $320k to $485k base
- Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment ↗
Character.AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $225k to $400k base
- Research Engineer, Responsibility, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Tech Lead Manager, Frontier and AGI Security, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Gemini Safety and Behavior, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Safety Oversight, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Safety Oversight, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist/Engineer, Autonomous Security, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- AI Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- AI Research Scientist, FAIR Security, Privacy, and Reliability ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Engineer, Privacy Evals - Meta Superintelligence Labs ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent
- Research Engineer, Safety Evaluation ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Security Engineer, Applied AI ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Applied AI and forward-deployed · PhD required
- Applied AI Engineer, CyberSecurity ↗
Mistral AI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Applied AI Engineer, CyberSecurity - Montreal ↗
Mistral AI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $211k to $292k base
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber | Tokyo ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $211k to $302k base
- Applied AI Software Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $266k to $405k base
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - NYC ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $185k to $300k base
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $185k to $300k base
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - SF ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $185k to $300k base
- Forward Deployed Security Engineer ↗
OpenAI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated · $266k to $445k base
- Research Engineer, Privacy ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- 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, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Robustness & Safety Training ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Safety Oversight ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Safety Training, National Security ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Software Engineer, Productivity - Inference Runtime ↗
OpenAI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $230k to $385k base
- Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training ↗
Reflection AI · Applied AI and forward-deployed · No degree stated
- Member of Technical Staff - Research Software Engineer - Safety Evaluations Infrastructure ↗
Reflection AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- 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
