Remote Head of AI Safety Strategy

Bilinguallink; Lévis; Remote; CAD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Group healthcare package

Dental & Vision Insurance

Life & LTD

Employee Assistance Program

Maternity/Paternity leave

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Job summary

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead applied AI safety work, including red teaming and adversarial evaluation of AI systems. You will advise frontier AI companies and regulators, translating psychology and safeguarding insights into actionable guidance across model safety, policy, product, and research teams.

You will manage client relationships, build a high‑performing team, and shape the portfolio’s growth while ensuring ethical and data‑protection compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety or related field.
• Ability to translate expertise into actionable guidance for multiple teams.
• Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories such as extremism or CSEA.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, teams, budgets, partners, and clients.
• Excellent written communication for government, foundation, or enterprise audiences.
• Comfort working with sensitive content and wellbeing practices.
• Strong judgment navigating ambiguity and stakeholder environments.
• Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours; eligible for security clearance if required.
• Experience supporting business development, grant funding, or procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and quality‑assure Moonshot’s applied AI safety work across harm categories, using red teaming and adversarial evaluation.
• Advise frontier AI companies on how to improve model safety, policies, and intervention systems.
• Translate insights from experts into clear guidance for model safety, policy, product, research, and engineering teams.
• Set the portfolio’s methodological approach and translate expertise into structured evaluation frameworks.
• Lead and participate in red teaming and evaluation, detailing test scenarios and scoring criteria.
• Identify patterns and risks and provide practical recommendations to improve model behaviour.
• Maintain rigorous documentation across deliverables for technical and government audiences.
• Ensure work complies with ethical, contractual, data protection, and legal obligations.
• Identify and manage operational, reputational, and delivery risks.

Skills

Trust & Safety

Online harms

Violence prevention

Child safety

Regulator engagement

Security clearance

Project management

Business development

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Data protection

Ethics compliance

Job description

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead applied AI safety work, including red teaming and adversarial evaluation of AI systems. You will advise frontier AI companies and regulators, translating psychology and safeguarding insights into actionable guidance across model safety, policy, product, and research teams.

You will manage client relationships, build a high‑performing team, and shape the portfolio’s growth while ensuring ethical and data‑protection compliance.