
Research Engineer Intern, Fall 2026
Center for AI Safety
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningAI securitymachine ethicsAI alignmentbenchmarkingexperiment planningcode reviewslarge language modelspytorchdebugging
Soft Skills
communicationownershipteam collaborationdebatingdefending impact