Research Lead

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The Research Lead will develop and lead an AI safety research agenda, build and mentor a technical team, conduct hands-on research, and connect findings to real-world adoption through grants, independent testing, and government advising.

Responsibilities:

• Articulate a research agenda with a clear theory of change for mitigating catastrophic risks from human-level or superhuman AI systems, and/or vastly increasing the upside of such systems
• Grow and lead a team of technical staff in pursuit of this agenda, either directly or in partnership with an engineering co-lead
• Lead novel research projects where there may be unclear markers of progress or success
• Share your research findings through written content (e.g. academic publications, blog posts) and presentations (e.g. ML conferences, policymaker briefings) to drive adoption and change
• Mentor and coach junior team members in research skills and ML engineering
• Contribute to the FAR.AI intellectual environment, for example by giving feedback on early-stage proposals
• Build a research field around your agenda through FAR.AI's grantmaking and events, and connect it to real-world deployments through our independent testing and government advising