Field Strategist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Manage multiple potential interventions concurrently and delegate them effectively.

• Collaborate closely with our cohort of Founders.

• Concentrate on a combination of AI infrastructure security (particularly these six issues) and epistemic security; candidates with relevant experience will be prioritized.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in navigating and/or modifying intricate systems (whether natural or human-made).

• Generalist: capable of quickly grasping nuances across a variety of topics, including ML architecture, export control regulations, and ideological differences within the AI community.

• Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Cybersecurity - Technical: Software security, vulnerability assessment (or related fields).

• Cybersecurity - Strategic: Cybersecurity strategy, Red Team operations, or threat intelligence (or similar).

• Epistemic Security - Technical: Media forensics, deepfake detection, or content provenance (or related disciplines).

• Epistemic Security - Strategic: Analysis of information operations or counter-influence strategy (e.g., intelligence community, think tank, or allied government).

• Cross-cutting: Strategic technological or product planning.

• Strong capability to interview experts and synthesize insights across various domains.

• Comfort in forming and revising hypotheses swiftly.

• Strong creative problem-solving skills, with a passion for identifying Pareto improvements to conventional options.

• Ability to reason about AI trajectories, safety, and future-state technologies.

• Practice of reviewing the state-of-the-art after generating ideas, accompanied by a desire to prototype, test, and iterate.

• A founder mentality, characterized by a high degree of ownership over outcomes (rather than processes) and the ability to drive progress independently with minimal oversight.

• Experience in coordinating and aligning stakeholders towards a common objective.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities.

• Comfort with uncertainty and an eagerness to shape our culture, as we remain a very small organization.

• Authorization to work in the US (and ideally eligible to obtain 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 available from major national and local carriers, with employee and family premiums for most plans fully covered by the Company contribution.

• Outstanding dental and vision insurance, with employee and family premiums for most plans fully covered by the Company contribution.

• Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, long- and short-term disability insurance, along with voluntary supplemental insurance options.

• 19 holidays (including the week off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day).