Senior AI Safety Engineer – Artificial Intelligence Full Time

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The Bloomberg Terminal connects influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology that enables our customers to make informed decisions and foster collaboration.
For over a decade, Bloomberg has been a trailblazer in financial applications of AI, machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP). The Artificial Intelligence group is responsible for driving adoption of these technologies at Bloomberg, with over 300 research engineers working collaboratively to provide clients with the best-in-class news, research, market data, and analytics.

The AI group contributes to Bloomberg’s flagship products such as news, research, pricing, communications platforms, search and discovery tools. We work on a variety of AI subfields, including NLP, information retrieval, time series analysis, and recommender systems.

As a Senior AI Safety Specialist, you will develop risk detection and mitigation systems using a wide range of technologies including BloombergGPT and other LLMs. You will have access to vast amounts of high quality data for training and evaluation, and the support of dedicated data, risk, and policy experts with decades of experience. You will be expected to lead the way in characterizing, assessing, and mitigating novel GenAI risks, especially in the financial services domain, and to evangelize best practices and technologies throughout the company.

We’ll trust you to:

• Collaborate with teams across the company to ensure best practices around GenAI risks.
• Identify novel GenAI risks and develop new models and mitigation strategies to address them.
• Stay current with the latest research in AI Safety and Alignment and incorporate new findings into our models and methodologies
• Evangelize AI Safety best practices to application teams across Bloomberg, and help them to develop solutions.

You’ll need to have:

• A Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant work experience in AI Safety, AI Alignment, or AI Cybersecurity (5+ years after Masters or 2+ years after Ph.D.)
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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Salary Range: 165,000 – 260,000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation [Exempt roles only], paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.