METR hiring AI safety evaluators with salaries up to $687K, matching top labs
chrisrohlf · x · 2026-09-13
- AI evaluation research org METR is hiring across multiple roles with top-lab-level pay: MTS Embedded Assessments $402K–$687K, Evaluation Execution and Security Engineering $328K–$578K, Cyberforensics $402K–$578K, and remote Task Development Engineers at $150–$300/hr.
- METR measures what AI systems can do autonomously, studies AI's ability to evade monitoring, publishes risk assessments, and contributed to eval standards like STREAM and AEF-1; its frontier safety policy proposals have been adopted by most major AI developers.
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