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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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First seen Oct 17, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)