Senior Research Scientist, AI Safety and Biosecurity
Core
Advancing AI safety and biosecurity by studying the capabilities and risks of frontier biological AI systems and developing methods to evaluate and secure them.
Role type
Senior Research Scientist (AI Safety & Biosecurity)
Builds
Evaluation frameworks, threat models, and safeguards for biological AI systems
Domain
AI Safety, Biosecurity, Computational Biology, Genomic AI
Deliverable
research
Required skills
Machine learning, AI safety, computational biology, biosecurity, model evaluation, interpretability, robustness, safeguards, experimental design, quantitative risk assessment
Preferred skills
Protein design, genomic models, structure prediction, experimental biology, deployed system safeguards, biosecurity organization collaboration
Technologies
Genomic datasets, deep learning frameworks, biological modeling tools
Responsibilities
Design evaluations and red-teaming studies for biological AI systems; Develop threat models grounded in biology; Investigate model behavior and generalization to identify safety gaps; Develop and test safeguards across training, behavior, and access
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
