Director of Research Programs
Non-profit AI safety research and community-building lab that researches frontier-AI safety and runs remote research sprints and fellowships.
Funding history
About Apart Research
Apart Research conducts AI safety research, including work on frontier-model manipulation and safety evaluations, and develops researchers through open research sprints and fellowship programs.
Skills
About the Role
You will write research tracks for Sprints and Fellowships, maintain a view of AI safety research agendas, and design programs that identify and develop talent. You will own the program portfolio, evaluation and impact reporting, manage field-building staff, and report KPIs and OKRs.
Requirements
- Knowledge of AI safety research
- Research problem design
- Talent development
- Program design
- People management
- Research evaluation
- Experimentation
- AI safety networks
Responsibilities
- Write research tracks for Sprint and Fellowship cohorts
- Maintain a map of AI safety research agendas
- Design programs to identify and develop talent
- Choose program partners, sponsors, universities, and local groups
- Own the Sprint calendar and program portfolio
- Develop theories of change, premortems, postmortems, and impact reports
- Manage the Field Building Division
- Propose contractors and expert collaborations
- Report KPIs and OKRs
Benefits
- Travel support for conferences and team gatherings
- USD 5,000 annual learning and development budget
- Protected time for reading, thinking, and improving AI workflows
Hiring Process
Application form → screening call → paid take-home assignment → reference checks → interviews → paid work trial → offer