Principal, Special Projects

The Center for AI Safety is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. We’re hiring senior operators to own high-stakes projects and initiatives, identifying high-impact opportunities, defining strategy, and driving execution end-to-end.

Requirements

• A track record of owning complex, ambiguous initiatives and delivering outsized results.
• The ability to scope new problem spaces quickly—defining goals, success metrics, and constraints through research, interviews, and good judgment.
• Consistently good judgment under uncertainty—you make sound calls with incomplete information, know when to move fast and when to slow down, and leadership can trust your decisions without reviewing every detail.

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401K plan + 4% matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• Annual Professional Development Stipend
• Access to some of the top talent working on technical and conceptual research in AI safety