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ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · Mid

$350,000 – $500,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role involves building ML systems to detect and prevent misuse of AI models, from individual policy violations to coordinated attacks, plus developing defenses and safety evaluations for increasingly capable AI systems. It suits engineers or researchers with 4+ years of ML experience who want to work on AI safety and are comfortable moving from research prototypes to deployed systems.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 4+ years ML engineering, research engineering, or applied research experience
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience building ML systems
  • Comfort working across research-to-deployment pipeline
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to have

  • Language modeling and transformers experience
  • Classifiers, anomaly detection, or behavioral ML
  • Adversarial machine learning or red-teaming
  • Interpretability or probes
  • Reinforcement learning
  • High-performance, large-scale ML systems

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