Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety
Core
Map misuse risks in material sciences by connecting material properties and processing to harmful applications, assessing physical feasibility and likelihood of misuse to safeguard scientific AI.
Role type
Senior IC materials scientist (AI safety risk assessment)
Builds
Risk assessments, policy boundaries, evaluation priorities, and mitigation requirements for materials research
Domain
Materials science + AI safety
Required skills
Deep materials science expertise (structure/properties/processing), dual-use risk assessment, judgment on physical feasibility, ability to synthesize cross-disciplinary evidence, scientific communication
Preferred skills
AI safety threat analysis/red teaming, commissioning specialist research, computational materials science, automated synthesis
Technologies
Computational materials science, automated synthesis and characterization
Responsibilities
Map misuse risks across material domains, assess physical feasibility and likelihood of misuse, distinguish established capabilities from hypotheses, identify expertise gaps and commission research, translate judgments into policy boundaries, collaborate with threat modelers and engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
