Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety at Lila Sciences · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

We're building a talent-dense, high-agency AI safety team at Lila that will engage all core teams within the organization (science, model training, lab integration, etc.), to identify and mitigate risks from scientific superintelligence while retaining the core scientific discovery capabilities of the stack. The initial focus of this team will be to build and implement a bespoke safety strategy for Lila, tailored to its specific goals and deployment strategies. This will involve technical safety strategy development, broader ecosystem engagement, safety-focused evaluations, safety systems to mitigate risks, and a research agenda that explores longer-term needs such as oversight of superintelligent scientific systems.
We are seeking a materials scientist to map risk across the material sciences domain: you will connect deep materials expertise with dual-use risk assessment to help safeguard increasingly capable scientific AI. You will investigate how advances in materials research could change harmful capabilities, including established and emerging threats.
What You'll Be Building
Map misuse risks by connecting material properties, processing and functional performance (across a range of materials domains) to harmful applications, including emerging or overlooked uses of scientific advances.
Assess how physical feasibility, processing complexity, manufacturing requirements and actors' resources affect the plausibility and likelihood of misuse, including which constraints AI could change.
Distinguish established capabilities, plausible future developments and weakly supported hypotheses, revising assessments as evidence changes across models, tools and automated laboratories.
Identify gaps in expertise, commission targeted scientific input with the expert-program team, and integrate specialist findings into a coherent assessment of the risk landscape.
Translate dual-use judgments into policy boundaries, evaluation priorities and mitigation requirements that support beneficial materials research.
Work with threat modelers, evaluation researchers and engineering and experimental colleagues to assess capabilities, interpret red-team findings and evaluate safeguards.

Senior / Principal Materials Scientist, AI Safety

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Company

Lila Sciences

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