Field Strategist
Core
Design and launch interventions to address society-scale AI risks (infrastructure security, epistemic security) by scoping opportunities, validating with experts/funders, and recruiting specialist founders to own them.
Role type
Senior IC field strategist (AI resilience & intervention design)
Builds
Intervention design documents, founder recruitment pipelines, and stakeholder alignment for AI safety initiatives
Domain
AI safety, cybersecurity, epistemic security, policy, and complex systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
navigating/modifying complex systems, generalist research across ML architecture/export controls/ideology, cybersecurity strategy (Red Team/threat intel), epistemic security analysis (info ops/election security), strategic technological planning, expert synthesis, rapid hypothesis iteration, creative problem-solving, AI trajectory reasoning, high-trust networking
Preferred skills
ARPA entity experience, COO-type integration, tight budget management, startup founding experience
Technologies
ML architecture, export control laws, cybersecurity tools, information operations frameworks
Responsibilities
Scoping multiple potential AI risk interventions simultaneously, creating intervention write-ups with risk analysis and stakeholder maps, pitching potential founders to organizations, introducing founders to funders, mentoring junior hires
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with autonomy
