Senior / Principal Chemist, AI Safety
Your Impact at LILA
We're building a talent-dense, high-agency AI safety team at Lila that will engage all core teams within the organization (science, model training, lab integration, etc.), to identify and mitigate risks from scientific superintelligence while retaining the core scientific discovery capabilities of the stack. The initial focus of this team will be to build and implement a bespoke safety strategy for Lila, tailored to its specific goals and deployment strategies. This will involve technical safety strategy development, broader ecosystem engagement, safety-focused evaluations, safety systems to mitigate risks, and a research agenda that explores longer-term needs such as oversight of superintelligent scientific systems.
We are seeking a chemist to map risk across the chemical sciences domain: you will connect deep chemistry expertise with dual-use risk assessment to help safeguard increasingly capable scientific AI. You will investigate how advances in chemical research could change harmful capabilities, including established and emerging chemical threats.
What You'll Be Building
- Map chemical misuse risks across scientific models, agents and automated experimentation, connecting scientific advances to harmful applications and identifying emerging or overlooked pathways.
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