VP of Engineering
Transluce · San Francisco, United States
Research instituteonsiteexecutive$500k–$600k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the engineering function scaling the lab from 20 to 40+ people.
- Lead products like Docent used in Claude safety analysis.
- Drive evaluations underpinning EU AI regulation on manipulation risks.
Ideal candidate
Technically grounded engineering leader who has scaled a small, fast-growing org and thrives mentoring senior talent. Motivated by AI safety and building infrastructure to understand AI systems.
Requirements
- Experience taking a small, fast-growing company from 20 to 40+ as senior leader
- Strong management skills with direct line management and mentoring managers
- Able to hire and inspire senior engineers, researchers and managers
- Technically oriented, comfortable diving into details and making trade-offs
- remote policy
- In-person
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
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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