Career Opportunities

The Operations Associate plays a key role in supporting CAIS's organizational efficiency and culture by overseeing office operations, event planning, and executive support. This role requires a proactive and detail-oriented individual who can manage essential tasks across HR, finance, technology, office management, and team culture.

We're seeking a highly skilled Program Manager who is excited by our mission to develop and promote the field of AI safety. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of project management techniques, such as stakeholder management and project planning, and the ability to adapt to a diverse range of projects. In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead important and impactful projects that are critical to the growth and improvement of the AI safety community, including but not limited to fellowships, workshops, publications, convenings, and policy initiatives.

We’re seeking a Newsletter Editor who keeps up-to-date with AI safety news, can identify the most compelling stories for an AI safety audience, and who writes clearly. Your role will include story selection, drafting, editing, and publishing newsletter issues—while working closely with our team.

As a Research Scientist here, you will lead and execute high-impact research that advances the safety and reliability of frontier AI systems. You'll design and run experiments on large language models, build the tooling needed to train and evaluate models at scale, and turn results into publishable research.

As a Research Engineer here, you'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and reliable engineering. You'll design and run experiments on large language models, build the tooling needed to train and evaluate models at scale, and turn results into publishable research. You'll collaborate closely with CAIS researchers and external academic and commercial partners, using our compute cluster to run large-scale training and evaluation. The work spans areas like AI honesty, robustness, transparency, and trojan/backdoor behaviors, aimed at reducing real-world risks from advanced AI systems.

If you’re motivated to advance our mission but don’t see a current opening that matches your background, we invite you to submit an expression of interest. This allows you to share your skills, experience, and ideas for how you might contribute to CAIS. We regularly review these submissions alongside our evolving priorities and may reach out if we see a strong fit.