Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety

Highlights

• Build bespoke AI safety strategy for scientific superintelligence at Lila.
• Assess how materials advances could enable misuse across established threats.
• Translate dual-use judgments into evaluation priorities and mitigations.

What they offer

• Bonus potential
• Generous early-stage equity
• Comprehensive benefits program for full-time U.S. employees

Ideal candidate

PhD-level materials scientist with dual-use risk judgment who pairs deep physical intuition with AI safety mission and thrives collaborating across science and policy to safeguard discovery.

Requirements

• PhD or comparable experience in materials science or closely related discipline
• Strong grasp of structure-properties-processing-applications relationships
• Substantive dual-use risk assessment experience including nuclear, radiological or energetics risks
• Sound judgment on physical possibility, feasibility and uncertainty beyond immediate specialism
• Ability to identify specialists, evaluate evidence and synthesize across disciplines
• Clear scientific communication and collaboration across science, engineering and policy