Backend Software Engineer (Research team)

Applications deadline: We accept submissions until 15 January 2026. We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage early submissions.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for Backend Software Engineers who are excited to build tools for frontier AGI safety research, e.g. building and maintaining evals libraries and tools for monitoring and controlling our own LLM traffic.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Here is a list of example projects which you might build and ship in your first 6 months.

• Internal tooling for efficiently running and analyzing evaluations. For example, a tool that quickly investigates thousands of agentic eval runs in parallel and surfaces interesting information automatically
• Automated evaluation pipelines to minimize the time from getting access to a new model for pre-deployment testing to analyzing the most important results and sharing them
• Orchestration tools that allow r...