AI Safety Research
Scientific / research IC
Career Explorer · Research, AI & Data · Artificial Intelligence
Entry: AI Safety ResearcherIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- AI Safety Researcher InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate AI Safety ResearcherIC1
- AI Safety ResearcherIC2
- Senior AI Safety ResearcherIC3
- Staff AI Safety ResearcherIC4
- Principal AI Safety ResearcherIC5
- Senior Principal AI Safety ResearcherIC6
- Distinguished AI Safety ResearcherIC7
- Fellow, AI Safety ResearchIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: SFIA; Microsoft Careers