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Research Scientist (Control)

Apollo Research

London & San Francisco

Research Science

Posted 2 months ago

midunknown

Verified open on Oct 31, 2026 ยท posted 60 days ago

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

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Join our new AGI safety product team and help transform AI control research into practical tools that directly reduce risks from AI. As an Research Scientist (Control), youโ€™ll work closely with Marius (CEO & currently leads the monitoring efforts), other control researchers and product engineers.ย 

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We are currently building Watcher,ย  a monitoring tool for coding agents. Our monitoring research agenda attempts to translate compute into safety at scale. You will join a small team and will have significant ability to shape the team & tech, and have the ability to earn responsibility quickly.ย 

You will like this opportunity if you're passionate about using empirical research to make AI systems safer in practice. You enjoy the challenge of translating theoretical AI risks into concrete detection mechanisms. You thrive on rapid iteration and learning from data. You want your research to directly impact real-world AI safety.

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