Senior Technical Specialist, AI Risk Assessment
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist to join our Comprehensive Risk Assessment team. This role combines original research in AI safety and technical governance with strong emphasis on conceptual depth and quality assurance leadership. The ideal candidate will bring methodological rigor to our assessment methods and analyses of AI risk pathways, contributing to the development of frameworks that shape industry standards and policy. You will serve as a subject matter expert bridging technical AI safety with governance approaches, enhancing team research quality while driving forward key aspects of our groundbreaking work in risk assessment methodologies for increasingly capable AI systems, all within our established strategic research program. This position is entirely remote but occasional travel is required.
About CARMA
The Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) works to help society navigate the complex and potentially catastrophic risks arising from increasingly powerful AI systems. Our mission is specifically to lower the risks to humanity and the biosphere from transformative AI.
We focus on grounding AI risk management in rigorous analysis, developing policy frameworks that squarely address AGI, advancing technical safety approaches, and fostering global perspectives on durable safety. Through these complementary approaches, CARMA aims to provide critical support to society for managing the outsized risks from advanced AI before they materialize.
CARMA is a fiscally-sponsored project of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop techniques for discovering threat models and generating risk pathway analyses that capture societal and sociotechnical dimensions
• Model multi-node risk transformation, amplification, and threshold effects propagating through social systems
• Contribute to the design of robust technical governance frameworks and a...