Head of AI Safety
Moonshot believes that marginalised people in society — including minority ethnic people, people from working class backgrounds, women, Disabled and LGBTQIA+ people — must be centred in the work we do. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other communities who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. We know a diverse workforce will enable us to understand drivers behind violent extremism and online harms in an in-depth way and do better work to counter them.
About the role
Moonshot is recruiting a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio. The role combines Moonshot's expertise in violence prevention, behavioural risk, and online harms with the emerging practice of evaluating and improving the safety of AI systems. The portfolio addresses harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, child sexual exploitation, abuse and grooming (CSEA), mental health and crisis, and risks affecting children and teenagers.
The Head of AI Safety will serve as Moonshot's primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators. The role will work closely with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams. This is not an engineering or data-science role, but it is a hands-on position requiring the successful candidate to lead and participate directly in red teaming and adve
