Mechanistic analysis of how neural networks compute — circuit tracing, attribution, behavior decomposition. The research field underpinning safety arguments about model internals. Primary AI lifecycle stage: evaluation.
82 active AI roles across 31 companies in our index reference Interpretability as of today. New postings fell 27% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (30 → 22).
The companies with the most active Interpretability listings are: Microsoft (9 roles), OpenAI (8 roles), Amazon (7 roles), Meta (7 roles), Anthropic (6 roles).
Interpretability primarily belongs to the evaluation stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Interpretability roles concentrate at: post-training (51%), agents (17%).
The sectors with the most active Interpretability hiring are: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Banking.
Mechanistic analysis of how neural networks compute — circuit tracing, attribution, behavior decomposition. The research field underpinning safety arguments about model internals.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: evaluation.
As of today, 82 active AI roles across 31 companies in our index reference Interpretability. Hiring concentrates at the post-training (51%) and agents (17%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Banking. New postings fell 27% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (30 → 22).
11 AI roles tagged interpretability.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Scientist – AI Agent Systems for Drug Development | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · LLM observability |
| Johnson & Johnson | Sr Director/Scientific Fellow, AI Safety, R&D Data Science and Digital Health | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Frontier research |
| Johnson & Johnson | Senior Scientist, AI Applications - R&D Oncology | Pharma | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · Multimodal · LLM observability |
| Pfizer | Postdoctoral Fellow, AI/ML Applications for Vaccine | Pharma | 8 | Fine-tuning |
| Johnson & Johnson | Postdoctoral Researcher Video team | Pharma | 8 | Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning |
| Pfizer | Postdoctoral Scientist – AI & Machine Learning for Predictive Drug Absorption | Pharma | 7 | Fine-tuning · Evals |
| Merck | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Senior Specialist | Pharma | 7 | Evals · Guardrails · Agent research · Fine-tuning |
| Merck | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Specialist | Pharma | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Merck | Enterprise Data Access Product Owner | Pharma | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI |
| Johnson & Johnson | Data Scientist and Application Developer | Pharma | 5 | |
| Merck | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Senior Specialist | Pharma | 5 | Evals · Guardrails |