{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-AS-6601",
        "slug": "machine-intelligence-researcher-alignment-assurance",
        "title": "Machine Intelligence Researcher — Alignment & Assurance",
        "division": "autonomous-systems",
        "region": "emea",
        "level": "principal",
        "location": "Zürich, Switzerland",
        "site": "Secure campus",
        "clearance": "Level 4",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site",
        "travel": "Occasional — academic and sponsor engagement",
        "reports_to": "Head of Autonomous Systems",
        "featured": true,
        "summary": "Lead research into whether the company's autonomous systems do what they were specified to do, and what happens at the edges where they do not. The group's remit explicitly includes recommending that a capability not be deployed.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Set the research agenda for alignment, evaluation, and assurance of machine intelligence across the divisions.",
            "Develop evaluation methods that survive contact with deployed systems rather than benchmarks alone.",
            "Advise programme leadership on deployment risk, in writing, with reasoning attached.",
            "Supervise a group of researchers and hold the standard on evidence.",
            "Work with Ethics & Governance to keep the governance framework technically grounded."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Doctorate in machine learning, computer science, or a related field, with a substantial independent research record.",
            "Demonstrated work on evaluation, interpretability, robustness, or assurance of learned systems.",
            "Ability to lead researchers and to argue a technical position to non-specialist leadership.",
            "Comfort delivering conclusions that are inconvenient to a programme schedule.",
            "Eligibility for sponsored vetting to Level 4."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Experience with systems that take consequential action without human confirmation.",
            "Background bridging academic research and operational deployment.",
            "Prior involvement in standards or policy work on autonomous systems."
        ],
        "team": "Autonomous Systems is a cross-divisional group rather than a product organisation. It has no delivery deadline of its own, which is deliberate.",
        "notes": "Publication is supported where disclosure allows, and the disclosure decision is made by review rather than by default.",
        "division_label": "Autonomous Systems",
        "region_label": "EMEA",
        "level_label": "Principal",
        "url": "role.php?job=machine-intelligence-researcher-alignment-assurance",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Machine%20Intelligence%20Researcher%20%E2%80%94%20Alignment%20%26%20Assurance%20%28ON-AS-6601%29"
    }
}