# Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment

Hiring organization: [Cognition AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cognition-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d64d4e85-967d-412e-8466-d397dde03502

Listed on Cognition AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA

## Summary

This role leads safety and alignment work for Devin, an autonomous AI agent that writes code and takes actions in production systems. You'll design evaluations, red-team the agent, develop alignment methods, and partner with the agent team to ensure safe behavior at scale—a hands-on research engineering position where safety work directly influences a deployed product.

_Our summary, not Cognition AI's wording._

## Skills named

JAX, Python, PyTorch

## Required

- Hands-on experience in safety, alignment, evaluations, red-teaming, or interpretability at a frontier AI lab or published research
- Understanding of how agents fail in practice and ability to measure or reason about failure modes
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch or JAX
- Ability to build evaluation infrastructure and run experiments at scale
- Empirical rigor in experiment design and honest reporting

## Nice to have

- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or related discipline
- Prior experience at a frontier AI lab, applied AI company, or developer tools company
- Adversarial thinking and systems-breaking experience
- Published safety or alignment research

Apply on Cognition AI's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition/023cea7e-70db-4f79-8e82-c57564466622/application