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AI Research Scientist
Advances the state of the art in models, training methods, evaluation or safety, and publishes the results.
What AI Research Scientist is
Research roles concentrate in a small number of labs and universities and usually require a doctorate and a publication record.
How it works
The work is designing and running experiments, writing papers, reviewing literature and collaborating on large training runs, with heavy compute requirements.
Why it matters
The techniques everyone else applies originate here, though the number of positions is small relative to applied roles.
Common uses
- →New architectures and training methods
- →Evaluation science
- →Interpretability and safety research
Strengths
- ✓Frontier work
- ✓Intellectual freedom in strong labs
Watch for
- ✓Very competitive entry
- ✓Long training path
- ✓Compute access gates the work
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