Role OverviewLead a team of research scientists and engineers working on biological safety evaluations and classifiers, setting the technical direction and roadmap for the biological safety research agenda.
What You Will Do
Manage, coach, and grow a team of research scientists and engineers, own the quality of capability evaluations, and turn results into deployment recommendations.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The core tension your team owns is precision: safeguards need to be robust against sophisticated actors while staying out of the way of the far larger population of legitimate researchers using Claude to accelerate life sciences work.
Requirements
- Experience managing a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- A record of setting technical direction for a team and making prioritization calls under uncertainty
- Proficiency in Python, with a background in scientific programming and data analysis
- A solid grasp of ML fundamentals, sufficient to critically review evaluation design and classifier development
- Knowledge of modern biology across both measurement and engineering: high-throughput assays and functional characterization, as well as gene synthesis, genome editing, strain construction, and protein engineering
- Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions from noisy results
- Clear analytical and writing skills, and the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with dual-use research concerns and biosecurity frameworks, such as select agent regulations, the Biological Weapons Convention, or Australia Group guidelines
Benefits
- Annual Salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
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