Senior Research Scientist, AI Biosecurity Assessments

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🏄 California, Massachusetts – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $235k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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SecureBio

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11 - 50 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🔬 Science

🤝 Non-profit

Biotechnology • Science • Non-profit

SecureBio is a nonprofit organization that works to secure the world against catastrophic pandemics by developing technology, policy, and operational solutions to delay, detect, and defend against biological threats. Its in-house researchers and partners in academia, industry, and government focus on pathogen-agnostic early warning (the Nucleic Acid Observatory using deep metagenomic sequencing), assessing and mitigating AI-driven biotechnology risks, and creating tools like SecureDNA for DNA synthesis screening. SecureBio also explores physical interventions (e. g. , PPE and far-UVC) and policy proposals to improve biosafety, biosecurity, and societal resilience to engineered or natural pandemics.

📋 Description

• Work with AI firms and internal research and engineering teams to conduct capability and safeguard assessments of emerging AI models • Execute evaluation pipelines, analyze data, and identify how results align with threat models and risk levels • Manually assess models for willingness and knowledge across specialized biology domains • Synthesize findings into evaluation reports, technical write-ups, and risk summaries for partners and regulatory bodies • Contribute to papers, reports, and the public dashboard of capability trends

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in pathogen biology, microbiology, virology, or a closely related field; equivalent depth from other paths will be considered • Wet-lab experience is preferred • Strategic judgment about mapping evaluation results to real-world biological risk and technical safeguard performance • Deep interest in safeguards, their failure modes, and contributory biological capabilities • Ability to turn complex technical results into clear, well-structured writing • Comfort with short, intensive project cycles and shifting priorities • Roughly a year of coding in an industry or graduate research setting is preferred • Working fluency in Python is preferred • Direct experience with the Inspect AI framework, or building and evaluating LLM or agent systems, is preferred • Familiarity with biosecurity policy, threat assessment, or counterterrorism work is preferred • Experience working with AI developers or in a regulated or NDA-heavy environment is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including health, dental & vision insurance • Yearly mental health allowance for every employee • Flexible work hours • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) • Minimum 12 weeks fully-paid parental leave • Fully-paid conference sponsorships • Yearly professional development allowance • Employer 401(k) match up to 4% of total salary • Referral bonus of up to $5,500 for successful candidate referrals