We are a nonprofit raising policymaker awareness about AI risks, aiming to slow potentially dangerous research and accelerate technical safety. We have ambitious goals and need to move fast. Come work with us! About Palisade

Mid/Senior-level position, remote full-time We are prioritizing senior candidates right now

Research generalists conduct experiments, build demonstrations and prototypes, write papers and blog posts about their findings. The ideal candidate combines the skills of a startup CTO and a scientist. This is our primary research role, equivalent to Research Scientist or Member of Technical Staff in other organizations.

What you’ll do

1. Pull a project from our ideas backlog or come up with your own. e.g.:

   I think GPT-4o could do binary exploitation to the level of OSCP certificate. Concretely, I think it could hack all of crackmes.one level 3 challenges.

   I wonder how safe the just-released o1 is 🤔

   I wonder if https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00761v3 really breaks the Badllama attack?

2. Develop the experiment end-to-end, including its design (how to measure the thing?) and harness, then run the experiment and collect data.

3. Tweet your results, and then write them up as a publication on arXiv, a landing page, or a report for policymakers.

See the kind of work we do in About Palisade.

Our collaboration process

• We post daily statuses for each other to keep in sync regarding our directions. Each project has a daily sync, and there’s a weekly lab demo to show off our results.
• We propose new ideas or directions by writing up a doc, sharing it, and getting comments. This enables async communication.
• Our median response time to each other is in hours, not minutes; we work in an independent and self-directed fashion. Your supervisor helps you maintain direction; colleagues help with the implementation; you keep track of your tasks and milestones.
• We offer high intellectual freedom and value curiosity. You are welcome to challenge anything we do.

What you’ll need

Experience level

• 4+ years of relevant technical experience, or 2+ quality research projects
• Track record of independently driving technical projects to completion
• History of mentoring others and technical leadership preferred