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 / technical program lead
Builds
Research acceleration models, internal research projects, and potential Skunkworks spinouts
Domain
AI Safety and Alignment
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI and ML systems working knowledge, complex technical project management, structuring execution across ambiguous high-stakes efforts, translating between engineers researchers clients and funders, initiative and end-to-end ownership, eagerness to use AI tools
Preferred skills
AI research experience, technical product leadership, startup founding experience, prior work with generative AI or large language models, background in DARPA-style research or grant-based work
Technologies
AI tools, generative AI, large language models, experimental architectures
Responsibilities
Turn abstract research ideas into clear roadmaps, keep technical teams unblocked and moving fast, break down ambiguity and define milestones, identify dead ends early, focus work on highest-upside directions, dive in to test and validate technical work
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
