Researcher, Alignment Training

Job description

About The Team The Alignment Training team studies how frontier models acquire durable behavioral tendencies across the training stack. We work on identifying which behaviors can be shaped through pre-training, mid-training, and post-training; building the data, objectives, and evaluations needed to influence them; and determining whether the resulting behavior reflects a general learned tendency or a narrow artifact of the training distribution. Our work spans synthetic data, pre-training, mid-training, post-training, model behavior, and evaluation. We study how models learn to interpret intent, follow instructions, reason through tasks, express uncertainty, act honestly, and remain reliable under new conditions. The goal is to make desirable tendencies emerge early, strengthen throughout training, and appear robustly in deployed systems. About The Role: We’re looking for a senior researcher with exceptional technical depth in large-scale model training, synthetic data, or evaluation who is excited to study how training choices shape aligned behavior in frontier models. You will help shape the research agenda for alignment training: defining the behaviors we want models to learn,...