Lila Sciences
Manager / Senior Manager, AI Safety Data and Evaluation Program
$180K–$256K
Cambridge, MA USA +5 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
London, UK
San Francisco, CA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA
Europe
San Francisco, CA
About the job
Runs expert-data, red-teaming, and evaluation programs that produce reliable evidence for Lila’s AI safety decisions.
What you'll do
- Translate scientific briefs into execution plans; source, onboard, and coordinate expert contributors.
- Manage data collection, annotation, red-teaming, and evaluation campaigns, including delivery tracking and problem resolution.
- Set quality controls, maintain versioned guidance and datasets, and improve workflows with researchers and specialists.
What they ask for
- Experience delivering expert-data, research-operations, evaluation, or similarly demanding programs involving specialist contributors.
- Substantial working understanding of AI safety, including threat models, capability evaluations, red teaming, and safeguards.
- Evidence of applying AI safety understanding in research, evaluation, or expert-data work.
- Strong operational judgment, measurable quality standards, clear communication, documentation, and sufficient technical and scientific fluency to work with subject-matter experts.
Nice to have
- Experience in scientific study design, scientific-validity assessment, or evaluation-rubric development.
- Scientific expertise or research experience in biology, chemistry, or materials science; data analysis, scripting, annotation platforms, or research-workflow and data-provenance tools.
Pay
$180,000 — $256,000 USD (base salary)
AI focus
Builds and implements scientific AI safety programs, including expert-data collection, red teaming, evaluations, safeguards, and evidence for safety decisions.
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