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Much of the science underneath this is unsettled. It spans workload classification, network-based evidence, hardware attestation on accelerators, and physical and supply-chain assurance. With RISE, we are running an adversarial testbed on a 16-GPU H100 cluster. Mechanisms are built, attacked by an independent red team, and published either way. This role decides what we build and test next, and leads the people doing it.\nResponsibilities\nOwn Lucid's research agenda: which verification claims we pursue, in what order, and what counts as success\n\nLead and grow the research team across hardware security, cryptography, networking and ML systems\n\nDirect the research program on the RISE testbed, including experiment design, red-team cycles and publication under our open protocol\n\nTranslate policy and customer requirements into precise, testable verifiable claims, working with our policy and partnerships leads\n\nRepresent Lucid's research externally through papers, talks, and relationships with labs, institutes and academia\n\nSet the bar for rigour, including publishing negative results\n\nRequirements\nA track record of leading research in security, systems, hardware or cryptography, with published or deployed results\n\nExperience managing researchers or engineers and setting direction for a team\n\nDepth in at least one area central to our work: hardware roots of trust and TEEs, applied cryptography and proof systems, network measurement, or ML systems\n\nJudgement about which problems are tractable and worth the team's time\n\nComfort with public, adversarial scrutiny of your work\n\nUseful, not required\nFamiliarity with the compute governance and AI verification literature\n\nExperience with arms-control, safeguards or other high-assurance verification regimes\n\nExperience running research with external partners or under grant funding\n\nPrior work at a startup or in an applied research lab\n\nA genuine interest in AI safety\n\nPracticalities\nThis role can be based in San Francisco or London, or fully remote. 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