Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

When you see what modern language models are capable of, do you wonder, "How do these things work? How can we trust them?"

What it asks for · 7

• Are highly proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, Java) and productive with Python
• Have significant experience building and operating secure and scalable software infrastructure - cloud systems, distributed systems, or developer tooling
• Have strong cross-functional communication skills - equally at home working with researchers and with platform and security teams
• Are extremely curious about unfamiliar domains
• Have a strong ability to prioritize the most impactful work and are comfortable operating with ambiguity and questioning assumptions
• Are curious about interpretability research and its role in AI safety (though no research experience is required!)
• Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work

Also a plus

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP or AWS), Kubernetes, networking and infrastructure-as-code
• Security engineering experience: identity / auth / access management, sandboxing, red teaming
• Experience with data warehousing, large-scale storage systems, and data lifecycle management - especially for research
• Experience with compute schedulers and accelerator fleet management
• Experience building developer productivity tooling and observability stacks
• Experience building tooling to accelerate research teams

What the job covers

• Design, build, and own shared infrastructure for Interpretability - research environments, data systems, and compute tooling that researchers rely on daily
• Lead cross-team efforts with our agentic engineering , security, compute, and storage platform teams, so that company-wide solutions serve research needs
• Discover and resolve major organization-wide developer experience issues
• Help take interpretability methods from research code to dependable audit pipelines

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• research33×
• experience20×
• interpretability16×
• tooling14×
• researchers13×
• data12×
• build11×
• security11×
• infrastructure10×
• management10×
• design9×
• access8×
• compute8×
• developer8×
• engineering8×
• systems8×

Counted from the posting after the mission statement and the legal notices are set aside. The ones near the top are the ones a screener is looking for.

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