Senior Program Officer, Technical AI Safety

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3 days ago

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $126.2k - $286.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Coefficient

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Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Education

Coefficient is a London-based data consultancy that provides end-to-end AI and machine learning services, including data science, data engineering and infrastructure, machine learning implementation, and bespoke training courses. The company works with enterprise clients across industries to build predictive models, automate processes, design data architectures, and deliver tailored training and workshops. Coefficient is led by founder and principal data scientist John Sandall and offers both client engagements and public training events.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

📚 Education

📋 Description

• Recommend grants to advance technical research aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from AI. • Investigate and recommend grants with significant responsibility. • Develop views about the field and make grants that can help to shape it. • Evaluate technical grant applications, for example those that came from our recent RFP. • Iterate with potential grantees on their research ideas and strategic plans. • Maintain strong knowledge of important developments in AI capabilities and safety research, and adapt our funding strategy appropriately. • Develop strong relationships with key AI safety researchers and other important people in the field.

🎯 Requirements

• Familiarity with AI safety. You have well thought out views on the sources and severity of catastrophic risk from transformative AI, and in the cases for and against working on various technical research directions to reduce those risks. You communicate your views clearly, and you regularly update these views through conversation with others. • Technical literacy. You are comfortable evaluating a technical proposal for technical feasibility, novelty, and the potential of its contribution to a research area (e.g. to one of the research areas we list in our most recent RFP). You are at home in technical conversations with researchers who are potential or current grantees. • Good judgment. You can identify and focus on the most important considerations, have good instincts about when to do due diligence and when to focus on efficiency, and form reasonable, holistic perspectives on people and organizations. • High productivity. You are conscientious and well-organized, and you can work efficiently. • Clear communication. You avoid buzzwords and abstractions, and give concise arguments with transparent reasoning (you’ll need to produce internal grant writeups, and you may also draft public blog posts). • High agency. You will push to make the right thing happen on large, unscoped projects, even if it requires rolling up your sleeves to do something unusual, difficult, and/or time-consuming. • Technical AI safety research experience. You have published TAIS research in the past. This is not a hard requirement, but is useful for these roles (especially the more senior roles).

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses. • Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family. • Four weeks of PTO recommended per year, alongside national holidays. • Four months of fully paid family leave. • A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive. • A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered. • Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with a Coefficient Giving coworking hub in your city.