Threat Modeler, Preparedness

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive threat models across all misuse areas (bio, cyber, attack planning, etc.).
• Develop plausible and convincing threat models across loss of control, self-improvement, and other possible alignment risks from frontier AI systems.
• Forecast risks by combining technical foresight, adversarial simulation, and emerging trends.
• Pair closely with technical partners on capability evaluations to ensure these map to and cover the gambit of severe risks differentially enabled by frontier AI systems.
• Pair closely with Bio and Cyber Leads to size the remaining risk of the designed safeguards and translate threat models into actionable mitigation designs.
• Act as the thought partner and explainer of “why” and “when” for high-investment mitigation efforts—helping stakeholders understand the rationale behind prioritization.
• Serve as the central node connecting technical, governance, and policy perspectives on prioritization, focus and rationale on our approach to misuse risk.

Requirements

• Understand risks from frontier AI systems and have a strong grasp of AI alignment literature.
• Bring deep experience in threat modeling, risk analysis, or adversarial thinking (e.g., security, national security, or safety).
• Know how AI evaluations work and can connect eval results to both capability testing and safeguard sufficiency.
• Enjoy working across technical and policy domains to drive rigorous, multidisciplinary risk assessments.
• Communicate complex risks clearly and compellingly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Think in systems and naturally anticipate second-order and cascading risks.