Research Manager, Biological Safety
Core
Lead a research engineering team to build evaluations, datasets, and classifiers that govern how AI models handle biological knowledge while balancing safety with legitimate research access.
Role type
Senior IC manager leading a research engineering team (biological safety)
Builds
Biological safety evaluations, training datasets, and safety classifiers for frontier AI models
Domain
AI safety + Life sciences (biology, biosecurity)
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
People management, technical direction setting, Python proficiency, ML fundamentals, modern biology knowledge (gene synthesis, genome editing, protein engineering), quantitative experimental design, analytical writing, biosecurity framework familiarity
Preferred skills
Building teams from scratch, 8+ years life sciences expertise, LLM experience, production classifier deployment, adversarial robustness, cross-stakeholder project leadership
Technologies
Python, LLMs, safety classifiers
Responsibilities
Manage and grow a team of research scientists and engineers; set technical direction and roadmap for biological safety research; own quality of capability evaluations; guide development of training/evaluation datasets; oversee training and iteration of safety classifiers; ensure investment in evaluation tooling and pipelines; establish performance measurement against production traffic; direct red-teaming and stress-testing; partner with Research, Product, Policy, and government affairs; represent team in external communications; track developments in biology, ML, and biosecurity
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities