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AI Research Engineer role at a YC-backed AI application security company building honeypot environments and evals that catch frontier AI models reward hacking, lying, and sandbagging. Owns environments end to end: ideation, hack identification, grader iteration, measurement, and refinement, mostly by directing AI agents. Requires very strong generalist software engineering (1+ years, Python), demonstrated long-standing interest in AI alignment and existential risk, and comfort owning projects end to end.

Key Highlights
YC-backed AI-native application security company building honeypot environments and evals
Own environments end to end by directing AI agents
1+ years software engineering experience with Python
Long-standing interest in AI alignment and existential risk required
San Francisco hybrid, open to relocation and visa sponsorship

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Key Responsibilities
Author long-horizon environments that elicit misaligned behavior from frontier AI models
Own the full environment process: ideation, hack identification, grader iteration, measurement and refinement
Direct AI agents efficiently, review their work and make design calls
Maintain and improve the software used to isolate and measure these behaviors
Pick up new domains quickly
Technical Skills Required
Python

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Nice to Have
RL environment or eval infrastructure experience
AI safety community involvement (LessWrong / Alignment Forum, MATS, SPAR, ARENA, BlueDot)

Job Description

We are looking for a AI Research Engineer to work on hybrid mode in San Francisco Bay, USA for a global project with stability and growth in the short, medium and long term.

Role Overview

The applied AI arm of a fast-growing, YC-backed AI-native application security company, a top 10 finalist in a major cybersecurity startup competition. The team builds honeypot environments and evals that catch frontier AI models reward hacking, lying and sandbagging, and frontier labs use them to test and train their models and to measure their own AI control measures.

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Job Overview
Posted Nov 03, 2026
Employment Full-time
Experience Entry level
Location United States
Category Machine Learning
Company ki people
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