Founding Staff, DC Office, (Science Communications, Engagement and Policy Research)
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Role involves science communications, engagement, and policy research focused on AI governance and national security.
О компании
- About Apollo Research Apollo Research is a mission-driven startup committed to reducing the threats from scheming frontier AI systems. We work with and are trusted by every frontier AI lab. We do fundamental research, test their models before deployment, and collaborate with them on scheming mitigations. The Governance team conducts research and provides advice on the institutional, legal and strategic implications of AI scheming and loss of control threats, working closely alongside our Science of Scheming , Evaluations, and Monitoring teams. The Governance team works on a bet: that the national security interventions the U.S. government enacts and implements over the next 15 months, through legislation, procurement and verifiable procedures for testing, monitoring, controlling and pacing frontier AI, will be among the most significant contributions to our collective ability to stay in control of increasingly advanced AI systems. That means our DC work focuses on identifying, describing and offering policy solutions to some of the hardest open problems at the intersection of AI misalignment and national security: loss of control, evaluation-aware models that stand to undermine existing assessment regimes, and the handoff of the development of AI systems to AIs themselves. We are routinely requested to brief decision makers in the U.S. government’s executive and legislative branch and across multiple intelligence agencies, as well as to provide input into relevant federal and
Требования
- Believe that technological progress from AI will require significant and systemic shifts to ensure a safe and secure transition to significantly more advanced AI systems
- Enjoy a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment with opportunity to swing for the fences while benefitting from mentorship and robust management
- Are detail-oriented with experience working in AI-governance relevant parts of the U.S. government and on relevant areas
- Are excited about delving into the details of existing frameworks as much as thinking through and dreaming up new ways in which U.S. government intervention could be particularly effective and meaningfully positive
- Hold a Masters degree or Ph.D in a related field
Условия
- We aim to pay competitive salaries for each role. We expect a salary band of 200,000 - 300,000 USD, commensurate with experience.
- Candidates with exceptional qualifications may be eligible for higher compensation, such as those with more than a decade of experience in the intelligence community, those with validated and repeated experience drafting relevant legislation and seeing them through to success, or those with significant and trusted professional relationships relevant to our mission.
- Flexible work hours and schedule
- Unlimited vacation
- Unlimited sick leave
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks are provided for all employees on workdays
- Paid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences
- A yearly $1,000 (USD) professional development budget
Другое
- Start Date: Target of 2 months after the first interview.
- Time Allocation: Full-time
- Location: D.C., with at least 25% of your time expected to be spent on travelling for relevant meetings, conferences and to work from our London office.