Technical AI Safety Specialist
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- Technical AI Safety SpecialistGet exceptional technical talent working on the most important problems in AI safety.Apply Now1. Home>2. Work with us>3. Technical AI Safety Specialist## **Who is BlueDot Impact?**We're a nonprofit startup **building the workforce that protects humanity**.Since 2022, we've trained over 7,000 people in AI safety and biosecurity. Our alumni work at Anthropic, DeepMind, the UK AI Safety Institute, and dozens of other organisations shaping how transformative technologies affect the world.We run courses, offer 1-1 advising, train over a 1,000 people a month, and deploy over $1M a month in grants. We're a small team headquartered in San Francisco. We raised $25M from Coefficient Giving in 2025.## **Why this role matters**There are a huge number of open technical problems we must solve to make AI go well. Model evaluations are still brittle, jailbreaks are still common, we still can’t reliably align models with human values and have even less idea how to do this for super-intelligent systems.The number of people contributing to these problems is in the low hundreds, and many people who want to do this lack the strategic clarity to actually push the needle on them. There is also a capacity problem. There aren’t many safety organisations and open roles, and there aren’t enough places on fellowships to absorb the talent.Your job is to tackle both problems — and BlueDot puts you in an unmatched position to do it. Drawing on one of the largest talent databases and alumni networks in AI safety, you'll identify and accelerate top technical talent through advising and strategic clarity, while building programs and deploying significant capital to support them full time. We're taking an especially ambitious approach in the months ahead, with over $5M in grants in the next year as we scale our programs and grantmaking to new heights.## **What you'll do****Shape how the field thinks*** Write publicly about technical AI safety strategy for large audiences: canonical guides for newcomers, career guides, and strategy docs for researchers.* Build a platform so your reach compounds over time.**Get the best people up to speed*** Run our technical AI safety course and project sprints. Make them sharper, faster, and more useful.* Test new formats — research bootcamps, mentorship intensives, lab-specific bespoke training. Whatever works.* Work alongside leading researchers to keep the content world-class.**Place them where they'll have impact*** Do one-to-one advising calls with the strongest people in our pipeline. Give them opinionated guidance on what to work on and where to apply.* Cultivate relationships with hiring managers at labs, evals orgs, and independent research outfits.* Help mobilize researchers towards areas you think are neglected.* Track where graduates end up and whether they're actually shipping safety-relevant work.**Deploy capital to unblock people*** Review and decide on rapid grants and career transition grants for technical talent.* Identify people who could be doing important work but are stuck on funding — and unstick them in weeks, not months.**Decide what TAIS actually needs — and do it*** Map what's being done in technical AI safety and where the bottlenecks are. Which problems are starved of talent? Which orgs can absorb more researchers? Where is the leverage?* Talk to leading researchers and lab safety teams every week. Form strong, specific opinions.* Think from first principles about the low-hanging fruit that the field needs, whether it be fellowships, incubation programs, technical research collaborations, hacker houses, or something else the field hasn’t ever seen before. Build and run these programs end-to-end.A strong first six months looks like owning the next iteration of our technical AI safety course, running ~50 one-to-one advising calls, and shipping at least one new program format we've never tried before.## **About you**We're looking for someone with deep technical AI safety chops who's energised to move from doing research to building the field around it. You might be a great fit if you:* **Have a strong technical AI safety foundation.** You've done research through a fellowship (MATS, LASR, ERA, Pivotal, Astra, ARENA, AFP), worked at a safety-focused org, deployed grants or led AI safety talent programs, founded companies or ambitious projects, or written papers people read. CS, maths, physics, or similar background.* **Ability to develop reasoned opinions about what matters in TAIS.** You’re curious and interested in learning about and coming up with specific bottlenecks and argue which matter most. You don't say "we need more alignment research" — you say something concrete and falsifiable. You'll update fast when the evidence shifts.* **Bias toward action.** Your instinct is to ship a course iteration in 3 weeks, not write a strategy doc and wait for sign-off. You can hold many moving pieces — advising calls, grants, course logistics, hiring manager relationships — without dropping any.* **Are good with technical people.** You give opinionated advice without being arrogant. You build trust with researchers fast. You can run a room of smart, opinionated people and have them leave energised.* **Are committed to doing the highest-leverage thing, and understand that mobilizing talent is key to this.** You're willing to swap a research trajectory for field-building because you can see the multiplier. You care about the work hitting the world, not paper count.We encourage speculative applications — most strong candidates won't meet all these criteria!## **What we offer*** **Massive impact:** You'll shape who works on the most important technical problems in AI safety. The labs and governments will hire whoever's available — your job is to make sure the right people are available.* **San Francisco-based role:** This is an in-person role in our new SF office. US visa sponsorship available.* **Freedom and autonomy:** Our expense policy is "act in BlueDot's best interest", unlimited PTO, minimal bureaucracy.* **Room to grow:** As BlueDot scales, so does this role. You’ll build conviction and strategic clarity, with the potential to become one of the most nuanced thinkers about AI safety strategy in the field. You'll likely lead a small TAIS team within 12–18 months.* **Competitive salary** depending on experience, 10% employer 401(k) contribution (no match required), and comprehensive health insurance. Salary range: $160-300k.## **Apply today**Applying takes 20-30 minutes, and we encourage you to **apply as soon as possible**.We're evaluating candidates on a rolling basis and want to make an offer quickly.## **Application process**We aim to make offers within 3 weeks of a great candidate applying.* Initial application* 3-hour work test (paid)* 50-minute interview* In-person work trial in San FranciscoIf you have any questions about the role, email **View email address on click.appcast.io**Apply Now
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