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Strategic Projects Associate, Safety
$120K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- Recent graduate or graduating soon; internship or light work experience is described as ideal.
- Education
- Strong academic record; no specific degree requirement stated.
About the job
Executes human-data programs for frontier AI model training and evaluation, focusing on safety policy annotation, evaluation, and enforcement workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and improve annotation frameworks, labeling workflows, playbooks, and quality guidance.
- Coordinate annotators and work with policy leads to identify policy gaps, ambiguities, and labeling trends.
- Partner with AI labs and internal teams on project scoping, issue resolution, and delivery.
What they ask for
- Strong academic record as a recent graduate or someone graduating soon.
- Strong analytical and first-principles problem-solving skills; comfort or aptitude for drawing insights from large datasets.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High ownership and a reliable, detail-oriented approach to execution.
Nice to have
- Internship or light work experience in trust and safety, policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, risk management, management consulting, government, or a related field.
- SQL proficiency; STEM or technical-concept exposure, large-workforce content-review experience, familiarity with high-severity policy harms, or harmful-content evaluation experience.
Pay
$120K (currency and whether base salary or total pay not stated)
Tools
SQL
AI focus
Develops human-data annotation workflows and evaluations to inform frontier AI model training, evaluation, and enforcement decisions.
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