Postdoc position on AI alignment and safe AI available at EPFL DLAB — EPFL
CHF 60'500 - 91'500
EPFL · Lausanne (VD)
- Location
- Lausanne
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 37 days ago
SalaryCHF 60'500 - 91'500
Role overview
Mission Research topics: Alignment Large language models Natural language processing
- Mission Research topics: Alignment Large language models Natural language processing
- Main duties and responsibilities You will contribute to the Swiss AI Initiative , in particular by incorporating your research results into Apertus , SwissAI’s open, transparent, multilingual language model.
- You will work in a stimulating, open, and international research environment consisting of many highly talented and motivated students, embedded in a strong network of academic and industrial collaborators.
Main responsibilities
- Main duties and responsibilities You will contribute to the Swiss AI Initiative , in particular by incorporating your research results into Apertus , SwissAI’s open, transparent, multilingual language model.
- You will work in a stimulating, open, and international research environment consisting of many highly talented and motivated students, embedded in a strong network of academic and industrial collaborators.
- Other benefits include a competitive salary (starting at around CHF 88,000 p.a.), an extremely well funded national research system, an office next to a stunning lake and even more stunning mountains, and generous travel support.
- Involvement in teaching is possible but not required.
- Project work with MS and PhD students is expected.
- Profile Candidates should have completed, or be near completion of, a PhD with a strong international publication record in AI or NLP.
- Strong programming skills and experience with machine learning frameworks are required. We offer A stimulating and international working environment
- Competitive salary and excellent working conditions – more information can be found on our website (https://www.epfl.ch/campus/services/human-resources/en/basic-starting-salary-of-doctoral-assistants-and-postdocs/)
- Opportunity to perform state-of-the-art research in one of the most dynamic scientific institutions in Europe.
- Opportunity to interact with internationally renowned experts, and with a strong team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students EPFL ranks among the world’s top universities in the field of computer science.
Application process
- Mechanistic interpretability Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at EPFL, to be hosted by the Data Science & AI Lab , headed by Prof.
- Robert West.
- We seek a candidate who will lead ground-breaking research projects with the goal of building safe AI that truly cares about human interests.
- Instead of viewing alignment as mere postprocessing of pretrained models (“lipstick-on-a-pig alignment”), you will contribute to our agenda of “raising” models that will be continuously aligned throughout the training process, starting from token 1 in pretraining (see here for a high-level vision).
- To this end, you will combine synthetic data generation, mechanistic interpretability, LLM pre- and posttraining, and model evaluation in novel ways.
- Informations Only applications submitted through the online platform are considered. You are asked to supply: A brief cover letter (pdf, up to 2 pages). And in one PDF: A CV with a publication list. A research statement (pdf, up to 3 pages).
Contacts
- For any further information, please contact: [XXX] Contract Start Date : 04/01/2026 Activity Rate Min : 100.00 Activity Rate Max : 100.00 Contract Type: CDD Duration: 1 year Reference: 2077
Additional details
- details for 3 referees. Mission Research topics: Large language models Natural language processing
- Strong programming skills and experience with machine learning frameworks are required. A stimulating and international working environment
- Informations Only applications submitted through the online platform are considered. You are asked to supply: A brief cover letter (pdf, up to 2 pages). A CV with a publication list. A research statement (pdf, up to 3 pages).
- Contact details for 3 referees.
Notes and original content
- Mission Research topics:
- Large language models
- Natural language processing
- Strong programming skills and experience with machine learning frameworks are required.
- A stimulating and international working environment
- Informations Only applications submitted through the online platform are considered.
- You are asked to supply:
- A brief cover letter (pdf, up to 2 pages).
- And in one PDF:
- A CV with a publication list.
