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About the Role

This role exists to close the gap in building institutions and technical infrastructure that make the world resilient to advanced AI. It focuses on developing defensive capabilities that are too important to leave to chance and won't be built by startups or fit within academic labs.

Responsibilities

• Create and fully own a growing portfolio of Focused Research Organizations (FROs) and other scientific projects that advance AI resilience.
• Define the portfolio surface area, spanning areas like defensive biosecurity, secure cyber-physical systems, epistemic infrastructure, independent evaluation, compute governance, and economic modeling.
• Form strong theses, find extraordinary founders, pressure-test ideas, raise money, build boards, and launch organizations.
• Help organizations move with the speed and focus of the best deep-tech startups.
• Roadmap the AI resilience landscape to identify bottlenecks and keystone capabilities.
• Source and diligence ideas for new projects and organizations, and design funding calls.
• Build founding teams and recruit early hires.
• Coach founders on technical and organizational roadmaps, fundraising, and startup operations.
• Serve as a Director on multiple FRO boards, tracking milestones and advising on funding, strategy, hiring, firing, and operations.
• Represent Convergent externally, building relationships with philanthropic and public funders.
• Contribute to Convergent-wide initiatives like Founder Retreats and Residencies.

Requirements

• Understand the AI landscape of 2026 in granular detail.
• Have a view on global exposures to AI advancements and tractable solutions.
• Possess ideas or a credible plan for large-scale efforts to improve global AI transition weathering.
• Be able to argue passionately for philanthropic capital allocation theses and their counterarguments.
• Be technically fluent in frontier AI.
• Have a deep network in the field.
• Understand how startups work, with experience in startups, venture firms, or building something.
• Have experience raising money, owning a budget, writing technical roadmaps, and hiring people.
• Have experience assembling a group for a hard technical task that succeeded.
• Have experience with boards, governance, or nonprofit leadership.
• Communicate clearly and move fast.

Skills

• AI landscape analysis
• Portfolio management
• Venture incubation
• Fundraising
• Board governance
• Technical roadmap development
• Team building
• Startup operations
• Relationship building
• Strategic planning
• Technical fluency in frontier AI
• Communication
• Fast-paced execution

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $200,000 - $350,000

Benefits

• Up to a 6% 401k match
• Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance (majority of options fully covered)
• Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, long- and short-term disability insurance, and voluntary supplemental insurance options
• 19 holidays
• 3 weeks PTO with tenure increases
• Separate allotments for sick and parental leave
• Generous fertility benefits
• Childcare reimbursement
• Education and professional development benefits
• Wellness allowance
• 3x/year offsite team retreats

About the Company

• Convergent Research is a nonprofit science studio known for pioneering the Focused Research Organization (FRO) model.
• FROs are purpose-built, mission-driven organizations designed to solve technological bottlenecks, unlock new fields, and lead to scaled revolutions.
• The company has a proven model, having built over 14 high-impact scientific organizations in fields like AI, biotech, mathematics, and climate science.
• Convergent Research exists to fill a structural gap in the R&D system, enabling fundamental research that requires unusual scale and coordination but is not rapidly monetizable by industry.
• They bring together top talent from academia, industry, and startups to build a new model for innovative R&D.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
• We believe in hiring individuals based on their unique talents—not on race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or our company policies.
• We are more than a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
• Our goal is to foster a healthy, safe, and respectful environment where all employees are valued and treated with dignity.
• Harassment of any kind is not tolerated here.