Head of Safety

AI research lab building large action models and world models that perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments.

New York, United States
About General Intuition

General Intuition trains models on action-labeled gameplay data, building on Medal’s gaming-clip dataset. Its models are intended for games, simulation, robotics, and other physical-world applications; it has begun onboarding commercial API partners.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own end-to-end safety and compliance across content safety, user data, and platform transparency. You will improve moderation accuracy, automation, and cost efficiency; define safety metrics and dashboards; build and evaluate detection systems; assess risk and cost trade-offs; translate regulations into practical guidance; lead compliance product work; and develop the safety function.

Requirements

  • Experience leading trust and safety, content policy, or product compliance at a consumer platform
  • Experience with user-generated content at scale
  • Track record of automating manual review through classifiers, tooling, vendor systems, or policy design
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Ability to build evaluation harnesses and script workflows
  • Knowledge of classifier and LLM-based review capabilities and failure modes
  • Ability to evaluate vendor claims
  • Knowledge of GDPR, the EU Digital Services Act, UK online safety legislation, investigatory powers legislation, cyberbullying rules, and minor-protection rules

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end safety and compliance function across content safety, user data, and platform transparency
  • Reduce manual moderation through improved automation, accuracy, and cost efficiency
  • Define safety metrics and build dashboards for queue volume, review time, appeals, reversals, costs, and escalation latency
  • Build and evaluate detection systems using test sets, precision, recall, and calibrated thresholds
  • Run evaluations to measure the impact of changes to detection and review systems
  • Assess the risk, cost, and alternatives for policies, tools, vendors, and review processes
  • Track relevant regulations and translate them into actionable compliance guidance
  • Maintain a current map of product compliance obligations, gaps, and remediation costs
  • Drive product roadmap work toward automated, holistic compliance
  • Develop safety operations teammates and hire when justified
  • Define internal safety principles and external user-safety positioning
  • Bring research on risk exposure to leadership for deliberate safety investment decisions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Fertility benefits
  • Parental benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Daily meals
  • Wellness benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Equity