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title: 'Alignment Scientist/Engineer at AE Studio'
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# Alignment Scientist/Engineer at AE Studio

- **Company:** AE Studio
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA / United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/6009528004

## Job description

AE Studio is a 160-person ML consultancy dedicated to solving the hardest problems in AI. We use our profits to fund research on the most important problems in AI Safety and Alignment. We partner with top researchers from both academia and industry, including Anthropic, Goodfire AI, Redwood, Princeton, MATS, RAND Corporation, and others. Our research is published in top ML conferences and currently deployed in safety-critical systems.

AE Studio was founded 10 years ago with the goal of helping corporate clients develop humanity-affirming, agency-promoting technology. Since then we’ve developed a reputation for rapidly delivering world-class solutions to their hardest problems. We take the same client-centric approach to research, partnering with the world’s best external researchers to develop world-class results. They provide the vision and our researchers make their ideas a reality.

Our core alignment team is 25 researchers and growing. We hire from all backgrounds. Whether you’re an independent researcher, an engineer, or an academic, AE is a place to make real impact on the single most important problem of our time. We research a diverse set of ambitious alignment directions that others neglect, including pretraining interventions for model safety, novel interpretability techniques, neuroscience-inspired approaches to alignment, and many others.

You can learn more about our team and work from our [Alignment Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ae-alignment-podcast/id1888046207) as well as our [research page](https://ae.studio/research).

## About the role

Our ideal candidate is a high-agency technical generalist. Our researchers spend ~100% of their time on alignment R&D, working autonomously in fast-paced, high-stakes environments and guiding research direction alongside our collaborators.

## About you

- Experienced in ML research, alignment research, or both
- Deeply passionate about AI alignment & believe genuine progress is possible
- Excellent at Python, Pytorch, and the modern deep learning stack
- Knowledgeable about building, training, or evaluating deep learning models
- Comfortable calling AI model APIs via REST or client libraries
- Adept at decomposing complex problems into concrete, testable experiments
- AI-native, and eager to use AI tools to automate your workflow
- Thrives in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Adept in English and comfortable communicating technical work to all audiences

Bonus

- Experience performing self-directed research or data science projects (show us what you've built, especially if it increases human agency)
- Software engineering background and best practices
- Agile experience (Kanban, Scrum, XP)
- Experience managing clients and client relationships
- Experience in startups
- Being in LA to work from our office

## Benefits

Remote-first with flexible schedules. Coworking spaces available in the Bay Area and NYC. Platinum health insurance, free lunches at the office, weekly knowledge-sharing talks, and an annual team retreat. Regular performance-based raises and a diversified employee equity program.

## Compensation

Salary range is $180K to $240K per year for US-based candidates. Not in the range? Apply anyway. We're growing fast and may have other roles opening soon.

## About AE Studio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AE Studio is a bootstrapped applied AI studio that delivers frontier AI alignment research, production AI systems, and AI strategy for enterprise and high-growth clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped – no outside investors)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence, AI alignment research, AI strategy, custom machine learning, enterprise software
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 1000 enterprises, PE portfolio companies, mid-market operators ($50–500M revenue), and venture-backed startups
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building products to increase human agency using the most recent technologies” (from job descriptions)

## Products & Services
The company operates across three practice areas, each delivered as a service:

- **Frontier AI Alignment Research**: In-house research lab publishing at top AI conferences. Collaborates with DARPA (AICRAFT, Sleeper Agents) and Anthropic. Research threads include Self-Other Overlap, Gradient Routing, Endogenous Steering Resistance, Attention Schema Theory, SelfIE, FDRA, and the automated AI research agent AE Scientist.  
  *Type*: Research service (grants, commissionable engagements, self-funded)

- **Production AI Systems**: Senior embedded pods that ship production AI systems in weeks, clearing enterprise architecture review. Representative work includes:
  - Azul Airlines – orchestrated pricing, network, and marketing AI generating $6M/week in new revenue.
  - Alpha School – AI-native learning platform (Avatar Tutors, Essay Writing, etc.) driving top 1–2% national test scores.
  - Blackrock Neurotech – MoveAgain BCI (brain-computer interface) platform for paralyzed patients.
  - Pimsleur – voice-driven AI Conversation Coach with 175,000+ learners, resulting in 45% longer sessions.
  - Global Shop Solutions – AI document ingestion (95% accuracy, 90% reduction in manual overhead).
  - Jupiter Intelligence – natural-language access to 400 trillion climate data points.
  - EVgo – multi-year embedded partnership for EVgo eXtend white-label platform.
  *Type*: Service (custom development)

- **AI Strategy**: Readiness assessments, opportunity mapping, training, and org design for leadership teams.  
  *Type*: Consulting service

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no outside investors)
- **Key Metric**: ~150 senior applied AI, data, and product practitioners; 99+ named client engagements
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (bootstrapped). Key research collaborators: DARPA (AICRAFT, Sleeper Agents programs), Anthropic. Public endorsement from Emmett Shear (former OpenAI CEO).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanding research portfolio with DARPA funding and peer-reviewed publications.
  - Consistent delivery of high-impact production AI systems (e.g., $6M/week revenue lift for Azul).
  - Active hiring across multiple roles (data science, engineering, product, TPM) with offices in LA and Florianópolis.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped independence**: No outside investors, allowing long-term focus on alignment research without external pressure.
- **Rigor from research to production**: Applies same standards from academic alignment work to every client build.
- **Senior-only teams**: ~150 experienced practitioners, not junior-heavy.
- **Speed to impact**: Ship production AI systems in weeks, as demonstrated by Global Shop Solutions (5 weeks) and Pimsleur (rapid deployment).
- **Unique AI guarantee**: The “AE Guarantee” (referenced on website) – a promise of quality and accountability, though details are not public.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued investment in AI alignment research** – advancing frontier safety and interpretability through DARPA-funded programs and internal agendas.
- **Scaling Production AI Systems** – targeting Fortune 1000, PE portfolios, and mid-market clients with repeatable, high-velocity delivery.
- **Expanding industry-specific solutions** – dedicated landing pages for airlines, edtech, healthcare, BCI, neurotech, blockchain, and operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “awesome work environment and highly productive process” with a focus on self-management and strong problem-solving.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Fully remote for US-based roles; also has offices in Los Angeles, CA and Florianópolis, Brazil. Some positions are location-specific (e.g., Senior Full Stack Developer for Brazil).
- **Engineering culture**: Senior practitioners working on frontier AI alignment and high-stakes production systems. Emphasis on autonomy, deep technical work, and shipping real impact.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI research with DARPA/Anthropic and to build production AI for major organizations.

## Sources
1. [ae.studio](https://ae.studio)
2. [ae.studio/about](https://ae.studio/about)
3. [ae.studio/join-us](https://ae.studio/join-us)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio)
5. [linkedin.com/company/agency-enterprise-studio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agency-enterprise-studio)

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