Principal, Special Projects

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. Some of our past achievements include: releasing the most widely used measure of AI capabilities used by all major AI companies, running a large compute cluster to facilitate AI safety research which has been cited over 16,000 times, and publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and top AI CEOs. The Role We’re hiring senior operators to own high-stakes projects and initiatives. You will identify high-impact opportunities, define strategy, and drive execution end-to-end. Above all, we need people who can operate autonomously: someone with the judgment to navigate complex decisions and the track record to be trusted with significant responsibility. The scope is broad by design. Example projects include: partnering with the team behind #TeamTrees to run a public campaign on AGI risk, supporting researchers in building benchmarks for deception and weaponization risk, standing up an AI safety hub in Washington, DC, and finding ways to engage YouTubers and longform creators on AI safety. What unites these is the need for someone with the judgment and ability to take an ambiguous mandate and turn it into a concrete outcome, without needing to be managed closely. Who We're Looking For You’ve operated at a high level in fast-moving, high-stakes environments—and have the track record to prove it. Example profiles we're looking for include former startup Founders and COOs—people with both exceptional ability and judgment. Your specific background may look very different.