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Our mission is to facilitate breakthrough AI safety research, advance global understanding of AI risks and solutions, and foster a coordinated global response. \nSince our founding in July 2022, we've grown to 50+ staff, published 40+ academic papers, and convened leading AI safety events. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML including a Best Paper Honorable Mention in 2026, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times, Nature News, Wired Magazine and MIT Technology Review. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI, independent evaluations for governments including the EU AI Office, and publish the AI Security Leaderboard based on our red-teaming expertise. We help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley housing 40+ members; and supporting the community through targeted grants to technical researchers.\nAbout Research at FAR.AI\nFAR.AI conducts research to address fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) safety challenges. We rapidly explore a diverse portfolio of technical research agendas, de-risking and scaling up only the most promising solutions. We share our research outputs through peer-reviewed publications, via partnerships with governmental AI safety institutes, and through red-teaming engagements for leading AI companies.\nFAR.Research is dedicated to delivering the novel technical breakthroughs needed to mitigate the potential risks posed by frontier AI. As a non-profit research institute, we leverage our unique flexibility to focus on critical research directions that may be too large or resource-intensive for academia and often overlooked by the commercial sector due to their lack of immediate profitability.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for Technical Program Managers to define programs for both our foundational research and research infrastructure teams. Our Research organization is scaling up by expanding our portfolio of research agendas, including model deception, applied interpretability, evaluation awareness, pre-training filtering, and open-weight safety. As our Research portfolio expands, our Research Infrastructure needs will also scale up to meet these needs. You'll find the highest-leverage problems and own them end to end, building the processes, systems, and tooling that help our researchers and engineers move faster.\nWhat You’ll Do\nTake complex technical programs from idea to delivery: scope the plan and milestones, then keep complex, multi-team work moving efficiently, transparently, and to a high technical bar.\n\nPrioritize across competing demands in partnership with research teams so the teams’ effort lands on the highest-impact work.\n\nBuild and maintain compute and resource roadmaps by surfacing bottlenecks and trade-offs, finding ways to accelerate progress and build relationships with potential external partners.\n\nPartner with researchers to package their work effectively to get our research into the hands of people who can act on it by transferring findings, methods, and tools to frontier labs and other stakeholders.\n\nConnect research and engineering with our internal partners in Operations, Events and Communications giving each the timelines, results, and context they need to plan, resource, and communicate our work.\n\nThis role is a great fit if you:\nAre a fast learner and comfortable with ramping up quickly on unfamiliar technical domains to hold your own in discussions with researchers and engineers.\n\nCan reason about technical trade-offs in depth (e.g. measuring quality of agent output balanced against credit spend, compute efficiency, and training and inference infrastructure) to facilitate clear decisions by stakeholders.\n\nEnjoy 0-to-1 work by building the processes, systems, and structure where none exist, rather than inheriting them.\n\nThrive in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment that is scaling quickly.\n\nHold a deep commitment to ensuring safe and beneficial AI.\n\nThis role is a poor fit if you:\nHave no technical background. You don't need to code, but you do need to understand AI/ML well enough to hold your own in discussions with researchers and follow the substance of the work.\n\nWant to inherit a mature TPM function rather than help build one.\n\nAre looking for a product management role with a product roadmap, rather than driving programs, processes, and delivery across research and infrastructure.\n\nAbout You\nStrong candidates typically have many (but not all) of the following skills:\nA strong technical background, either in ML, software engineering, or another scientific or research field, with 4+ years building technical programs from scratch\n\nPractical domain experience in AI/ML such as coordinating model releases, procuring or managing datasets, or supporting evaluations\n\nA track record of delivering complex technical programs while managing tradeoffs and strategic priorities\n\nHave successfully facilitated technology transfer of foundational and applied research into production environments\n\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills\n\nIt is a plus (but not required) if you have experience with:\nDelivery at a frontier AI lab or AI safety institute\n\nScientific computing cluster management\n\nPublic storytelling through interactive demos or blog posts\n\nSupporting hiring processes for technical staff\n\nBenefits*\nHealth Insurance - 94% of Insurance premium paid by Organization commencing within 1 month after your start date\n\nRetirement - 401(k) plan with up to 2% match\n\nPTO - 25 days Paid Time Off per year, accrued weekly and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year\n\nPaid Leave - Paid Bereavement, Family, Medical and Pregnancy Disability Leave\n\nWFH Stipend & Equipment - Work computer and stipend provided for eligible employees\n\nCatered Meals (Berkeley Office Only) - Catered lunches and dinners on workdays at our office\n\n*(Available only to full-time employees located in the US)\nLogistics\nIf based in the USA, you will be an employee of FAR.AI (501(c)(3) research non-profit / non-profit CLG). Outside the USA, you will be employed via an EOR organization (employment contract) on behalf of FAR.AI or as a contractor.\nLocation: Remote U.S. or Bay Area in-office. We can sponsor US visas.\n\nHours: Full-time. 10% travel may be required.\n\nIf you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact us at . Otherwise, if you don't have questions, the best way to ensure a proper review of your skills and qualifications is by applying directly via the application form. Please don't email us to share your resume (it won't have any impact on our decision). 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