Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety at Lilasciences · London
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<li>Strong empirical judgment, practical programming ability and experience working with modern AI systems.</li>
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<li>The ability to investigate ambiguous failures, design informative comparisons and communicate limitations clearly.</li>
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<li>An interest in scientific misuse risks and the ability to collaborate productively with domain specialists.</li>
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<li><strong>For the Research Scientist profile:</strong> evidence of selecting valuable research questions, developing or adapting methods,
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<li>Automated red teaming, adversarial testing or evaluation-method research.</li>
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<li>Scientific AI, tool-using agents, laboratory automation or other complex environments.</li>
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<li>Experience with safety monitoring, model-based evaluators or scalable experimental infrastructure.</li>
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
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Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
Why they ask: Looks for red flags and motivation.
How to answer: Stay positive: what you want next, not what you dislike.
Why they ask: Fit and ambition check.
How to answer: Tie your growth to the problems this team is solving.
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