Head of Engineering (Frontier Safety)
Far Ai · Remote (International)
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## Head of Engineering (Frontier Safety) **FAR.AI** is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The **Frontier Safety** division runs one of the world’s most impactful frontier AI testing programs—raising the bar for safety and security of the most capable AI systems. ### About the role As **Head of Engineering (Frontier Safety)**, you’ll be the senior technical owner of engineering for the division, reporting to **Kellin Pelrine** (dotted line to **Edward Yee**). You’ll translate technical strategy into a world-class engineering organization and build the engineering/execution engine that powers the division’s work across: - testing and evaluations - tools, products, and services - research and safeguards Your systems and team will enable high-stakes engagements with frontier AI companies and leading governments—helping find vulnerabilities, accelerate fixes, and strengthen safeguards. ### What success looks like - New vulnerabilities found - A rapidly accelerating stream of vulnerabilities fixed - Safeguards strengthened - Engineering capacity and leverage scaling the division’s testing, research, products, and impact **10–100x or more per year** ### Key responsibilities - **Build a scalable technical engine** - Extend the red-teaming stack into evaluations, loss-of-control testing, and safeguards work - Build and scale red-teaming tools/products to improve speed, coverage, and finding importance - Operationalize attacker simulation and output severity evaluation - Maintain/evolve vulnerability databases, statistical analysis tools, and reporting infrastructure - Develop agentic systems (e.g., automated red-teaming agents, jailbreak discovery/integration, workflow automation) - Build and refine sandboxing architecture for rapid, thorough evaluation with strong security - Extend infrastructure for **CBRN**, **cyber**, and **loss-of-control** evaluations - Design architecture enabling external contributions/integration with evaluation ecosystems (privacy-compliant, minimizing vulnerability exposure) - Integrate systems with the division to enable high-velocity, high-quality testing and feedback loops from real-world outcomes - **Build and lead a world-leading engineering team** - Mentor and grow engineering skills (1:1 and via resources) - Manage team members with high standards for velocity, rigor, judgment, and impact - Initially build/manage a team of ICs, then hire/grow managers over time as needed - Design and lead hiring pipelines in partnership with recruiting - **Shape technical strategy and scaling** - Identify and execute high-leverage engineering and team-building opportunities - Partner closely with Kellin on intersections of engineering systems, methodology, evaluations, safeguards, and research - Deepen feedback loops between systems used in testing and testing that improves the systems - Translate technical ideas into real-world impact across FAR.AI (including building testbeds/tooling other teams can use) ### Why FAR.AI is hiring The Frontier Safety division has grown beyond a red team into a broader frontier safety program, but engineering capacity hasn’t kept pace. This role builds the engineering function so new research reaches production quickly and testing can scale faster than headcount. --- *Note: The provided description ends mid-sentence (“This role would be a great fit if you: - Are excited by high-stakes…”)
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