Founder in Residence
Core
Incubate career professionals to scope, validate, and launch interventions addressing society-scale AI risks, specifically securing AI infrastructure against nation-states, terrorists, and misaligned AIs.
Role type
Founder in Residence (Incubated Founder)
Builds
Fundable intervention plans, founding teams, and grant proposals for AI security projects.
Domain
AI Safety & Security, National Security, Cybersecurity
Required skills
AI security research, cybersecurity in national security context, breaking down ambiguous problems, articulating plans verbally and in writing, coordinating external stakeholders, prototyping and iterating
Preferred skills
Experience at frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, or government contractors, academic security research, security entrepreneurship
Technologies
AI infrastructure, model weights, compute verification, compromised AI protocols
Responsibilities
Research a specific AI security problem, develop a concrete intervention plan, build a founding team and advisor network, pitch funders, and launch the project independently.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
