Alignment Research Manager
Core
You will be the person who makes the research acceleration model actually run, owning projects end to end from abstract ideas to clear roadmaps and ensuring progress is visible to leadership and funders.
Role type
Senior IC research project manager / research acceleration lead
Builds
Research projects involving pretraining interventions, interpretability techniques, and neuroscience-inspired approaches to alignment
Domain
AI Safety and Alignment
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Managing complex technical research projects, structuring execution across ambiguous high-stakes efforts, translating between engineers researchers clients and funders, taking initiative without waiting for permission, using AI tools to automate workflows
Preferred skills
Experience in AI research or technical product leadership, prior work with generative AI or large language models, background in DARPA-style research or grant-based work
Technologies
Large language models, experimental architectures
Responsibilities
Turning abstract research ideas into clear roadmaps, keeping technical teams unblocked and moving fast, breaking down ambiguity and defining milestones, identifying dead ends early, focusing the team on highest-upside directions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC