Head of AI Safety

Moonshot is recruiting a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio. The role combines Moonshot's expertise in violence prevention, behavioral risk, and online harms with the emerging practice of evaluating and improving the safety of AI systems. The portfolio addresses harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, child sexual exploitation, abuse and grooming (CSEA), mental health and crisis, and risks affecting children and teenagers.

The Head of AI Safety will serve as Moonshot's primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators. The role will work closely with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams. This is not an engineering or data-science role, but it is a hands-on position requiring the successful candidate to lead and participate directly in red teaming and adversarial evaluation, working in detail with evaluation methodologies, test scenarios, model responses, safety policies, and intervention frameworks. The role holds responsibility for client and partner relationships, project and staff management, methodological quality, and business development. The Head of AI Safety will build and maintain relationships across the wider AI safety ecosystem, including with governments, foundations, regulators, academics, researchers, and civil society organizations.

Candidates must be based in MA, CO, NY, VA, GA, PA, MD, WI, TN, TX, OR, NJ, or DC. Occasional travel may be required.

Your responsibilities will include

Applied AI Safety, Evaluation, and Advisory

• Lead and quality-assure Moonshot's applied AI safety work across harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, CSEA, abuse and grooming, mental health and crisis, and risks affecting children and teens, using methods such as red teaming and adversarial evaluation of AI systems.
• Advise frontier AI companies on how to improve the safety of the