Center for AI Safety

Benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your dependents

• 401K plan + 4% matching

• Unlimited PTO

• Lunch and dinner at the office

• Annual Professional Development Stipend

Experience Requirements:

• Experience in operational support, especially in dynamic environments like startups

Other Requirements:

• Have a strong organizational standard, have high attention to detail, and are great at problem solving

• Are able to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines

• Are comfortable with technology

• Are open to new ideas and feedback, honest with yourself and others; at CAIS, even when it’s slightly uncomfortable, we prioritize getting to the best answer

• Are motivated by work that is focused on AI safety and risk

Responsibilities:

• Oversee general office management, including ordering supplies, managing food and snack orders, handling mail and deliveries, and ensuring the office is equipped for daily operations

• Coordinate employee onboarding and offboarding processes, including managing contracts, account setups, and workspace arrangements to ensure a seamless first and last day for team members

• Manage software access and general technical assistance for all employees

• Support financial processes, including expense reviews, reimbursements, and audit preparation

• Assist with legal processes, such as visa management, corporate filings, and other compliance tasks

Benefits:

• Health, dental, vision insurance for you and your dependents

• Competitive PTO

• 401(k) plan with 4% matching

• Personalized ergonomic technology set-up

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in public policy, law, or STEM degree; Advanced degree preferred

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in policy development and implementation

• Experience working closely with technical teams and the ability to understand technical issues

Other Requirements:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to balance competing priorities and make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities:

• Help develop the strategy to achieve CAIS AF's policy priorities and goals in partnership with the Director of Government Relations and Public Policy

• Monitor and analyze legislation, administrative or regulatory activity, or other government-led initiatives at all levels that could be of potential impact to CAIS AF

• Draft policy analysis documents for policymakers

• Prioritize and respond to government RFI's, public or inbound requests from policymakers and others

• Liaise with CAIS to ensure alignment on advocacy, policy priorities, and related activities between the organizations

Other Requirements:

• Are able to read an ML paper, understand the key result, and understand how it fits into the broader literature

• Are comfortable setting up, launching, and debugging ML experiments

• Are familiar with relevant frameworks and libraries (e.g., pytorch)

• Communicate clearly and promptly with teammates

• Take ownership of your individual part in a project

• Have co-authored a ML paper in a top conference

Responsibilities:

• Work very closely with our researchers on projects in fields such as Trojans, Adversarial Robustness, Power Aversion, Machine Ethics, and Out-of-Distribution Detection

• Plan and run experiments

• Conduct code reviews

• Work in a small team to create a publication with outsized impact

• Leverage our internal compute cluster to run experiments at scale on large language models