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Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment

Cognition
Location
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Work mode
On-site
Type
full time
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[ About this role ]

Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment at Cognition. This role involves building agentic safety evaluations, red-teaming the Devin AI agent, and developing alignment methods for model training. The focus is on hands-on research engineering for safety work integrated into a real agent.

Skills and focus areas

  • safety evaluations
  • red-teaming
  • alignment methods
  • reward modeling
  • preference data
  • constitutional approaches
  • agent harness
  • prompt injection
  • data exfiltration
  • sandbox escape
  • reward hacking
  • misuse

Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on Cognition’s careers page.

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