Head of Biology

What you'll do

• Lead adversarial evaluations of frontier AI systems for biological misuse risks across text, agentic, and multimodal capabilities.
• Work with AI researchers and engineers to develop evaluation datasets, classifiers, guardrails, benchmarks, and automated red-teaming; maintain biological risk frameworks and advise stakeholders.
• Build and lead a biology safety team, establish evaluation standards and infrastructure, and represent the company with external partners.

What they ask for

• PhD in biology or a closely related discipline, with postdoctoral or equivalent research experience.
• Deep understanding of biological misuse risks, dual-use research, pathogen biology, synthetic biology, or biosecurity.
• Experience in adversarial evaluations, biological risk assessment, AI safety research, or safety datasets for frontier AI systems.
• Familiarity with international biosecurity frameworks, dual-use governance, responsible biotechnology practices, and emerging AI safety standards.

Nice to have

• Experience developing machine learning systems, biological safety classifiers, or evaluation pipelines for high-risk biological capabilities.
• Frontier AI evaluations, red-teaming, prompt engineering, AI benchmarking, or programming/data science experience (including Python).

Pay

$230,000 - $280,000 USD base salary; $230K – $280K USD base salary

Tools

Python

AI focus

Evaluates frontier AI for biological misuse risks and develops AI safety evaluations, datasets, classifiers, guardrails, benchmarks, fine-tuned models, and automated red-teaming.