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 / program lead
Builds
Research projects involving grants, research partners, and internal research tracks
Domain
AI Safety and Alignment
Deliverable
research
Required skills
Managing complex technical projects, structuring execution across ambiguous high-stakes efforts, translating between engineers researchers clients and funders, taking initiative without waiting for permission, owning results end to end
Preferred skills
AI research, technical product leadership, startup founding, generative AI, large language models, experimental architectures, DARPA-style research, grant-based work, scientific pipelines
Technologies
AI tools for automation
Responsibilities
Turning abstract research ideas into clear roadmaps, keeping technical teams unblocked and moving fast, breaking down ambiguity, defining milestones, focusing the team on what matters, testing and validating research directions, identifying dead ends
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight
