Senior Researcher - Civil Safety Sciences
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Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA)AI Risk Management
AnywhereFull-TimeSenior
Salary155,000 - 215,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- Data AnalysisRisk Management
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD preferred or >1 MS) in a hard-science or engineering discipline.
- Demonstrated breadth across multiple natural science fields (e.g., biosecurity, physics, ecology, engineering).
- 5+ years of relevant research or applied experience running independent projects.
- Substantive familiarity with adversarial environments and adversarial reasoning.
- Demonstrated ability to reason carefully about hazards lacking historical data or settled paradigms.
- Strong publication record or body of work on technological risk, resilience, or detection science.
- Substantive grounding in modern AI capabilities and trajectories.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-specialist audiences.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort with uncertainty.
- Self-directed work style with sound judgment for high-leverage problem solving.
Responsibilities
- Conduct structured horizon-scanning for novel AI-enabled hazard classes.
- Investigate next-generation detection sciences and open-ended emergence approaches.
- Pursue feasibility analyses on deep resilience and lifeline capacities.
- Analyze biosphere-scale vulnerabilities and nontraditional environmental toxicology.
- Identify and advance defensive, stabilizing, and transparency-enhancing technologies.
- Develop scientific metaresearch on evidence generation and translation.
- Build scientific coordination capacity through standards and cross-border working relationships.
- Co-author grant applications and build analytical risk-assessment tools.
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