Center for AI Safety

Research Engineer Intern, Fall 2026

Center for AI Safety

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $9,700 - $19,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • As a research engineer intern here, you will work very closely with our researchers on projects in areas such as AI security, machine ethics, AI alignment, and benchmarking AI risks.
  • We will assign you a dedicated mentor throughout your internship, but we will ultimately be treating you as a colleague.
  • You will have the opportunity to debate for your own experiments or projects, and defend their impact.
  • You will plan and run experiments, conduct code reviews, and work in a small team to create a publication with outsized impact.
  • You will leverage our internal compute cluster to run experiments at scale on large language models.

Requirements

  • Are able to read an ML paper, understand the key result, and understand how it fits into the broader literature.
  • Are comfortable setting up, launching, and debugging ML experiments.
  • Are familiar with relevant frameworks and libraries (e.g., pytorch).
  • Communicate clearly and promptly with teammates.
  • Take ownership of your individual part in a project.
  • Have co-authored a ML paper in a top conference.
Benefits
  • This internship is unpaid; however, CAIS provides the above stipend to assist with academic pursuits and living expenses. The stipend is subject to tax.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
communicationownershipteam collaborationdebatingdefending impact