AI Researcher

Come close the imagination gap on how we build human-level AI and what it should be used for. Our team has unmatched clarity of purpose, and unmatched ambition. We seek to be the best in the world: on trust, capability, and ensuring the benefits of AI accrue to everyone.

Culture

We welcome teammates who want to do their life’s best work over the next 5 years. We are exceptional at what we do, and see ourselves as scientists, philosophers, and builders who enjoy working in the fellowship of other intrinsically motivated people. We strive to be Level 5 humans, co-creating a deliberately developmental atmosphere.

What you can expect working here to be like:

• Speed: Our ambition will only be reached if we are laser focused on the essential and move with purpose. You will consistently find yourself not knowing how to proceed and needing to figure out how to take next steps despite that.
• Opportunity: We are at an inflection point for our species and are bending the world toward one we want to live in – where everyone is safe and has access to the opportunities to express their innate creativity and pursue their deepest meaning.
• Optimism: We are high fun, ultimately high agency.
• Comfort with being uncomfortable: You should expect to always be in your “developmental zone,” which necessitates feeling inadequate and uncomfortable. Personal development is a core practice for continually leveling-up as technologist and as a human. Everyone is a senior person.
• Support: We are all in this together, and here to help each other succeed. We’ve got empathy for each other because we’re all experiencing the discomfort of growth together. We’ll only win as a team, so the only valid use of ego here is to fuel our creativity with it.
• Collaboration: We are building the rocketship as we’re flying it. We’re all responsible for finding ways to make ourselves and our team more effective. We’re run by ideas, not hierarchy.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to see your work directly impact people’s lives at scale.
• The chance to do the best work of your life surrounded by some of the most capable humans on the planet.
• Compensation at the high end of the market for the role and company stage, including benefits.
• Unceasing opportunities for career growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead research projects that directly inform and improve product capabilities.
• Develop and test novel approaches in areas like epistemic reasoning, risk, and abductive inference using both new and existing language models and various training methodologies.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on research ideas, with an eye toward production readiness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate new models into live systems.
• Mentor researchers and engineers, raising the bar for scientific and technical rigor throughout the org.
• Track and adapt cutting-edge work from the research community into practical solutions.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in computer science, machine learning, or related field; requirement may also be met with equivalent research experience.
• 5+ years of applied research experience in industry labs or startups.
• Proven ability to take ideas from concept to prototype to production.
• Strong expertise in one or more areas: large language models, reasoning, reinforcement learning, self-supervised learning, or knowledge representation.
• Skilled in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working across disciplines.
• Track record of impactful applied work (product launches, open-source contributions, patents, or widely used systems).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with evaluation and benchmarking of applied ML systems.
• Background in building human-in-the-loop, verification, or auto-escalation systems in AI.
• Familiarity with safety, interpretability, or robustness in production models.
• Experience mentoring applied research teams.

How to Apply

Send us a note at join@aloe.inc.