Head of AI Safety & Responsible Tech

Moonshot; Greater London; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days' annual leave

Flexible public holiday policy

Private healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Maternity and paternity leave

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Job summary

Moonshot in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining violence prevention, behavioural risk, and online harms with evaluating AI system safety.

The role acts as Moonshot's primary safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators, working with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams to advance practical, ethical safeguards.

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, online harms, or related field and ability to adapt to AI systems.
• Curiosity about AI with ability to engage credibly with technical teams.
• Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories.
• Experience managing projects, teams, budgets, partners, and clients.
• Excellent written communication for government, foundation, or enterprise audiences.
• Comfort handling highly sensitive or graphic content with wellbeing practices.
• Strong judgment navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours when needed.
• Discretion and diplomacy, with readiness for security procedures.
• Experience supporting business development, grant funding, or procurement.
• Commitment to Moonshot's mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead and quality‑assure applied AI safety work across harm categories using red teaming and adversarial evaluation.
• Advise frontier AI companies on improving model safety, policies, and interventions.
• Translate insights from safety experts into actionable guidance for product, research, and engineering teams.
• Set the methodological approach for the portfolio and develop structured evaluation frameworks.
• Lead red teaming and adversarial evaluation with test scenarios and scoring criteria.
• Identify patterns and edge cases, and provide practical recommendations for model behaviour and user protections.
• Maintain rigorous documentation for technical, government, and foundation audiences.
• Ensure work complies with contractual, legal, data protection, and ethics obligations.
• Identify, manage, and escalate operational and partnership risks.

Skills

Trust & safety

AI safety curiosity

Research design

Project management

Written communication

Risk assessment

Ambiguity tolerance

Stakeholder management

Security clearance

Business development support

Mission alignment

Job description

Moonshot in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining violence prevention, behavioural risk, and online harms with evaluating AI system safety.

The role acts as Moonshot's primary safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators, working with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams to advance practical, ethical safeguards.