This senior leadership role directs a multidisciplinary team researching risks from increasingly autonomous AI systems and practical ways to reduce those risks. It suits a leader who combines technical judgement, research strategy, delivery focus and strong people management.
At a glance
- Lead and line-manage an AI risk research team
- Set scientific direction, strategy and research priorities
- Move proposed mitigations from analysis towards adoption
- Report to a Deputy Director in the Research Unit
- Applications close at the end of 13 October 2026, anywhere on Earth
The role
- Lead research into how advanced AI systems may become difficult to oversee, correct or shut down
- Oversee scenario-based risk modelling and the development of practical mitigations
- Take responsibility for research quality and routes to implementation
- Build relationships with senior policy and technical stakeholders
What you will do
- Set the team's strategy, quarterly plan and overall research agenda
- Choose analytical approaches and review the quality of research outputs
- Ensure work remains relevant to institutions able to act on it
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team
- Manage several strands of work at the same time
- Work with stakeholders across government, research organisations and advanced AI companies
- Help existing and newly identified mitigations move more quickly into use
What you will bring
- Strong technical and scientific judgement
- Strategic thinking and a focus on delivery
- Effective people leadership and line-management capability
- Ability to oversee multidisciplinary research in a fast-moving field
- Skill in building senior policy and technical relationships
Working pattern and location
- Based in London
- Application deadline is the end of 13 October 2026, anywhere on Earth
How to apply
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