Director of Research Programs

Highlights

• Set research direction for one of AI safety's largest talent pipelines.
• Write miniature open-problems papers for every Sprint and Fellowship cohort.
• Own the Sprint calendar and launch grand challenges and mini-incubators.

What they offer

• Leadership-team seat with say over research direction of program portfolio
• Travel support for conferences and team gatherings
• $5,000 annual learning and development budget and protected time for reading and thinking
• Small, fast-moving team that ships and disagrees openly

Ideal candidate

Research leader with deep AI safety map who loves designing problems, spotting talent, and building programs. You start new initiatives, lead teams, and change course on evidence.

Requirements

• Real map of AI safety research with defensible views on which directions matter
• Written research problems for others: mentor lists, RFPs, challenges, competitions or capstones
• Sense of what problems are tractable in two days vs two weeks
• Spotted and developed talent through programs, evaluation and follow-up
• Started something new and managed people who delivered it
• Changed course on evidence, including stopping something you built
• Enough research ability to judge papers, run experiments and be peer to lab leads