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Scale AIScale AISan Francisco, CA

Head of Policy & Security Research Lab

Lead Scale’s Policy Research Lab, setting strategy and managing research on AI safety, benchmarks, and frontier risk evaluations while collaborating with government institutes and academia. Requires 6+ years experience, strong technical/policy background, and proven team leadership.

198k – 247k
On-site6+ YOEAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day responsibilities for the strategy, direction and execution of Scale’s Policy Research Lab
  • Collaborate with internal researchers and leading research labs across governments, industry, and academia
  • Drive initiatives related to frameworks and benchmarks for frontier AI models
  • Remain deeply engaged with the policy and research communities to understand and set trends
  • Manage and coordinate the lab's projects, partnerships and strategy, including direct work with global AI safety institutes
  • Finalize, coordinate, and execute the lab's recruiting plan and research agenda

Requirements

  • 6+ years of relevant academic or work experience
  • Track record of impactful research and/or policy contributions
  • Experience leading teams in relevant areas including AI Safety Policy, Thought Leadership and Research publications
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Experience building and mentoring teams of research scientists and engineers
  • Strong technical and policy background with a deep understanding of the AI safety space
  • Extensive knowledge of frontier risk evaluations, AI control, and preparedness research
  • Established connections with government partners, particularly AI safety institutes

Nice to Have

  • Publications at major machine learning/AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR) and/or journals

Skills

Ai SafetyAi PolicyFrontier Ai Risk EvaluationAi ControlPreparedness ResearchResearch LeadershipTeam ManagementPolicy ResearchMachine LearningGovernment Relations

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