[Hiring] Research Scientist @Singapore AI Safety Hub

Role Description

We are looking for a Research Scientist to identify important questions and own research projects end-to-end, from initial hypothesis and experimental design through to analysis and publication.

• Own research projects end-to-end: identify important questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, analyse results, and publish the work.
• Develop rigorous evaluations of misalignment and loss-of-control risks, including evaluation awareness, sandbagging, dishonesty, sycophancy, and unsafe behaviour in agentic settings.
• Study behaviours that are difficult to observe directly, including long-horizon failure modes and cases where models may have incentives to conceal relevant behaviour.
• Investigate whether existing alignment and evaluation methods continue to work across different frontier-model ecosystems.
• Work closely with research engineers to turn research ideas into robust, reproducible experiments.
• Contribute to Neo’s broader research agenda and communicate findings to researchers, model developers, and safety institutions.

Qualifications

• Track record of original research in AI safety, evaluations, or a closely adjacent field.
• Deep familiarity with frontier model behaviour and elicitation methodology.
• Ability to define a research agenda and drive it to concrete, published output.
• Strong technical writing.
• Comfortable collaborating closely with engineers.
• Comfortable in an ambiguous, early-stage research environment where the questions aren't settled yet.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent research output (nice to have).
• Publications on dangerous capability evaluations or alignment (nice to have).
• Familiarity with frontier lab safety reports (nice to have).
• Familiarity with the EU AI Act or NIST AI RMF (nice to have).
• Reading and writing Mandarin (nice to have).
• You don't need to have worked in AI safety specifically. We're also interested in researchers from closely adjacent fields whose judgment and technical depth could transfer strongly to this work.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and leave policies.