Chief Scientist at Atla

Atla is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to enabling the safe development of artificial general intelligence. Generative AI can only reach its full potential when it consistently produces safe and useful results. We train models to catch errors, monitor AI performance, and understand critical failure modes.

We’re a team of researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and operational leaders, with experience spanning a variety of disciplines, all working together to enable the development of safe artificial general intelligence.

We are backed by Y Combinator, Creandum, and the founders of Reddit, Cruise, Rappi, Instacart and more.

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Please apply to this role on our website

https://www.atla-ai.com/jobs/chief-scientist

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As Atla’s Chief Scientist, you’ll lead frontier research into training large language models, and advance the state of the art in AI safety research. As part of your role, you will:

• Steer LLMs to become strong evaluators aligned with human preferences using advanced post-training techniques.
• Lead and empower a world-class team of researchers and engineers, setting a high bar of excellence that propels Atla forward.
• Define and execute an ambitious research agenda that advances Atla's position as a leader in language model evaluation.
• Develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks, including tooling, datasets and metrics for rigorous assessment of alignment and safety risks.
• Contribute significant findings to leading AI safety conferences and journals. Please note that this role is in-person (we can sponsor visas and offer international relocation support).

Proven AI research leadership:

• Track record of 5+ years in pioneering AI research, with significant contributions to the field of LLMs, evidenced by publications in top-tier conferences and journals.

• Proven experience in defining and executing research agendas, demonstrating the ability to guide and align a team toward achieving ambitious research goals.

• Demonstrated success leading teams of researchers.

• Deep expertise in training and evaluating language models across GPUs, preferably in PyTorch.

• Experience at elite AI research lab (OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.). Nice to have

• Experience at a fast growing startup.

• Strong software, ML engineering expertise with a focus on building robust, scalable system. You are going to thrive at atla with the following mindset:

• Collaborative and team-oriented, with strong communication skills.

• Comfortable with the uncertainty of a hyper-growth startup.

• Unpretentious and hard working; find the best ideas wherever they come from.

• £200K - £300K

• Significant stake in equity as one of our core technical leaders

• Pension plan with employer contributions

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits Join us in making a dent in the universe by engineering safe, beneficial AI systems!

*This role is supported by AI Futures Grants, a UK Government scheme designed to help the next generation of AI leaders meet the costs of relocating to the UK. AI Futures Grants provide financial support to reimburse relocation costs such as visa fees, the immigration health surcharge and travel/subsistence expenses. Successful candidates for this role may be able to get up to £10,000 to meet relocations costs, subject to terms and conditions.

Javascript / Typescript, Java / Golang / Typescript / C++, Python, PostgreSQL / MySQL