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About the Role

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. We address the toughest challenges in AI safety through technical research, field-building initiatives, and policy engagement. Our work is aimed at reducing real-world risks from advanced AI systems, pursuing research directions that the field is not yet paying attention to, and focusing on problems that are both highly important and highly neglected. This role involves acting as a senior researcher, people manager, and translator between strategic direction and execution, combining research taste with operational discipline.

Responsibilities

Solve hard problems and unblock the team by diagnosing issues and proposing solutions.
Manage research performance by evaluating quality and pace, providing feedback, and coaching researchers.
Set and maintain priorities by translating the Research Director's vision into concrete team objectives.
Drive planning and accountability by owning project management, ensuring clear ownership and deadlines, and tracking completion.
Build a strong team culture by shaping norms, resolving conflict, supporting morale, and facilitating communication.
Write and contribute to papers.
Hire researchers and interns as the team grows.

Requirements

Research taste: ability to identify good research directions, detect flaws in arguments/results, and prioritize effectively.
Ability to quickly learn literature and track developments.
Ability to propose new, promising experiments and subdirections.
Precise reasoning about subtle conceptual distinctions.
Track record of strong published research.
Research execution: ability to validate experiments, reproduce results, and identify flaws in junior researchers' work.
People management skills: ability to manage performance, coach, and build team culture.
Project management skills: organization, ability to keep work on track, and hold people accountable.
Sharp, conscientious, and strong communication skills.
Genuine collaborator with low ego and motivated by the mission of making AI safe.
Potential candidates may have a strong research record and mentoring experience, even without formal management titles.
Significant AI safety context and familiarity with the field's open problems is a plus.
Prior experience collaborating with the Director or team members is a plus.

Skills

Deep learning research
Large language models
Multimodal models
Research taste
Research execution
People management
Project management
Communication
Collaboration

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior researcher
People manager

Education Level

PhD student or equivalent research experience

Salary/Compensations

$170,000 - $260,000 a year

Benefits

Health insurance for you and your dependents
401K plan + 4% matching
Unlimited PTO
Lunch and dinner at the office
Annual Professional Development Stipend
Access to top talent in AI safety research
$1,500 referral bonus

About the Company

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI.
We address the toughest challenges in AI safety through technical research, field-building initiatives, and policy engagement, along with our sister organization, Center for AI Safety Action Fund.
Our work is aimed at reducing real-world risks from advanced AI systems.
We deliberately pursue research directions that the field is not yet paying attention to, and we move on once the rest of the field catches up.
Our focus is on problems that are both highly important and highly neglected—and our track record is built on getting to them first.
Our papers have repeatedly gone on to become widely cited and to set the standard for underexplored research areas.
Our work is regularly used by AI safety institutes and frontier AI labs, and they have shaped real policy outcomes, including being presented directly to senators and policymakers.

Equal Opportunity

The Center for AI Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
In alignment with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact contact@safe.ai.
We value diversity and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.