Research Manager, Biological Safety

📋 Description

• Manage, coach, and grow a team of research scientists and engineers working on biological safety
• Set the technical direction and roadmap for the biological safety research agenda, and make the
• Own the quality of capability evaluations that assess what new models can do in the biological
• Guide the development of training and evaluation datasets for our safety classifiers, working with
• Oversee the training and iteration of safety classifiers alongside ML engineers, optimizing jointly
• Ensure the team invests in the tooling and pipelines that make evaluation and classifier

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• A record of setting technical direction for a team and making prioritization calls under uncertainty
• Proficiency in Python, with a background in scientific programming and data analysis
• A solid grasp of ML fundamentals, sufficient to critically review evaluation design and classifier
• Knowledge of modern biology across both measurement and engineering: high-throughput assays and
• Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
• Visa sponsorship (we make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration