MB
Career profile
Mikita Balesni
Working on alignment of frontier AI
San Francisco Bay Area
Career path.
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Dec 2025 - Present- Apollo Research
Research Scientist
Jul 2023 - Oct 2025 - Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
ML Safety Research Scholar
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023 - University of Tartu
Autonomous Driving Lab - Visiting ML Researcher
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 - Improve the News Foundation
Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 - University of Tartu
Machine Learning Research Assistant
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 - University of New Brunswick
Research Intern
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 - ELIN Software
JavaScript & ServiceNow Developer
Jan 2017 - May 2020