Scientific Lead, Embedded Assessments
Transluce · San Francisco, United States
Research instituteonsite$400k–$650k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead 3-5 evaluators embedded at a frontier AI lab assessing its safety stack.
- Design experiments to investigate unexamined risks and failure modes.
- Own public reports on embedded assessments informing AI policy and oversight.
Ideal candidate
A mission-driven scientist with a strong research track record who thrives leading small teams in ambiguous, fast-paced settings and cares deeply about rigorous AI evaluation and public-interest oversight.
Requirements
- Excellent track record of scientific research, ideally adjacent to AI alignment
- Experience building AI evaluations such as benchmarks, eval suites, or red-teaming
- Experience leading small, talented research teams in scrappy environments
- Ability to deliver high-quality results under uncertainty and tight deadlines
- Strong technical writing and ability to communicate to non-technical and public audiences
- Ability to quickly absorb technical context from code and artifacts to make progress
- visa sponsorship
- Open to sponsoring international visas
Lab profile
About Transluce
Non-profit research lab building public tech stack for AI evaluation and oversight.
What they build
- Docent agent-analysis platform
- Behavioral evaluations of frontier AI systems
- AI-backed tools for understanding AI
Known for
- Evaluation of emergent high-stakes AI behaviors
- Scalable AI oversight and debugging
- Work shaping AI development and governance
Key facts
- Independent non-profit research lab
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