Senior Researcher - Civil Safety Sciences

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CARMAAI Risk Management
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Salary155,000 - 215,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years of relevant research or applied experience
Required Skills
Project Management

Requirements

  • Advanced degree (PhD or >1 MS preferred) in a hard-science or engineering discipline.
  • Breadth across multiple natural science fields.
  • 5+ years of relevant research or applied experience.
  • Track record of running independent projects from framing through delivery.
  • Substantive familiarity with adversarial environments and adversarial reasoning.
  • Demonstrated ability to reason carefully about hazards that lack robust historical data.
  • Strong publication record on technological risk, resilience, or detection science.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
  • Systems thinking and comfort with substantial uncertainty.
  • Substantive grounding in modern AI capabilities and trajectories.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct structured horizon-scanning for novel AI-enabled hazard classes.
  • Investigate next-generation detection sciences and adaptive surveillance approaches.
  • Pursue feasibility analyses on deep resilience and infrastructure capacity.
  • Analyze biosphere-scale vulnerabilities including geoengineering and nontraditional toxicology.
  • Identify and advance defensive, stabilizing, and transparency-enhancing technologies.
  • Develop scientific metaresearch on evidence generation and translation.
  • Build scientific coordination capacity through standards, convenings, and cross-border relationships.
  • Co-author grant applications and build analytical tools for risk legibility.
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