Research Scientist: Scalable Oversight & AI Alignment

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fleet aiMillbrae (CA)

Computer and Information Research Scientists Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services

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About the role

Fleet AI, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Research Scientist to advance scalable oversight for agents, focusing on detecting misbehavior like reward hacking and deception, and ensuring reliable verification as models surpass human and automated checks. You will own research threads that translate into papers, benchmarks, training gyms, or production systems, in close collaboration with frontier labs. You will contribute to methods that maintain verification reliability as tasks lengthen and

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