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Research Scientist — Incentive & Alignment Research

The Incentives Lab

Listed free on the Incentives Lab job board — the home for incentive designers, comp architects, and behavioral economists. Listed free on the Incentives Lab job board — the home for incentive designers, comp architects, and behavioral economists. Study how training objectives, reward models, and deployment incentives shape model behaviour. The team publishes regularly and ships findings into RLHF pipelines and evaluation suites. PhD or equivalent in ML / economics / decision theory expected. Posted on the board of The Incentives Lab Become the most interesting person in the room. The Incentives Lab trains the people who design how organisations behave — comp, RewardOps, AI-incentive alignment, behavioural economics. Certification gets you the toolkit. The Consortium gets you the room. #J-18808-Ljbffr The Incentives Lab

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