Field Strategist

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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Convergent Research

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🔬 Science

Non-profit • Science • Technology

Convergent Research is a nonprofit organization that supports the creation and operation of Focused Research Organizations (FROs). These are new types of scientific startups dedicated to tackling large-scale, coordinated projects in science and technology. The organization aims to produce high-impact public goods and drive forward technically ambitious projects led by teams of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Convergent Research operates with a focus on achieving pre-specified, quantifiable technical milestones within finite-duration projects. It is supported by significant funding from notable entities, including investment by influential figures in the science and tech communities.

📋 Description

• scope multiple potential interventions simultaneously and hand them all off. • work closely in collaboration with our cohort of Founders. • focus on some combination of AI infrastructure security (especially these 6 problems) and epistemic security; we will prioritize candidates with relevant experience.

🎯 Requirements

• expertise in navigating and/or modifying complex systems (natural or human-made), • generalist: able to quickly understand nuances in a variety of topics, including ML architecture, export control laws, and ideological differences within the AI community. • meaningful experience in at least one of these areas: • Cybersecurity - Technical: Software security, vulnerability analysis (or related). • Cybersecurity - Strategic: Cybersecurity strategy, Red Team, or threat intelligence (or related). • Epistemic Security - Technical: Media forensics, deepfake detection, or content provenance (or related). • Epistemic Security - Strategic: Information operations analysis or counter-influence strategy (e.g., IC, think tank, or allied government). • Cross-cutting: Strategic technological or product planning. • strong ability to interview experts and synthesize across domains. • comfort forming and revising hypotheses quickly. • strong creative problem-solving skills, love finding pareto improvements to the obvious options. • a capability to reason about AI trajectory, safety, and future-state technologies. • a practice of reviewing the state-of-the-art after having an idea, coupled with an urge to prototype, test, and iterate. • a founder mindset, with a high degree of ownership over outcomes (not process) and the ability to personally make and externally drive progress with little oversight. • experience coordinating and aligning stakeholders to work toward a common goal. • strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. • comfort with uncertainty and interest in shaping our culture, as we’re still a very small organization. • work authorization to work in the US (and ideally also would be eligible to hold a US security clearance)

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to a 6% 401k match, equitably benchmarked based on experience and adjusted for location) • Excellent medical insurance options: 10–20 plans to choose from across major national and local carriers. Employee and family premiums for most plans are fully covered by the Company contribution. • Excellent dental and vision insurance. Employee and family premiums for most plans are fully covered by the Company contribution. • Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, long- and short-term disability insurance, as well as voluntary supplemental insurance options • 19 holidays (including the week off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day)