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.

You will:

• 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.

Ideally you’d have:

• 6+ years of relevant academic or work experience 
• 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.

Nice to have:

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