Head of Policy & Security Research Lab

We are seeking a highly experienced, strategic and mission-driven leader to drive the policy research priorities of Scale Labs. This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of research scientists, policy experts and engineers on foundational AI safety and security work.

- Own day-to-day responsibilities for the strategy, direction and execution of Scale's Policy Research Lab

- Collaborate with a team of internal researchers, leading research labs across governments, industry, and academia.

- Working alongside a team of internal researchers drive initiatives related to frameworks and benchmarks for frontier AI models.

- Remain deeply engaged with the policy and research communities to understand and set trends.

- Manage and coordinate the lab's projects, partnerships and strategy, including direct work with global AI safety institutes.

- Finalize, coordinate, and execute the lab's recruiting plan and research agenda.

- A track record of impactful research and/or policy contributions

- Experience leading teams in relevant areas including AI Safety Policy, Thought Leadership and Research publications

- Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

- Experience building and mentoring teams of research scientists and engineers.

- A strong technical and policy background with a deep understanding of the AI safety space.

- Extensive knowledge of frontier risk evaluations, AI control, and preparedness research.

- Established connections with government partners, particularly AI safety institutes.

- Publications at major machine learning/AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR) and/or journals.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of Washington DC, Texas, Colorado, Hawaii is: