Director, AI Safety & Risk — Equity Options

Moonshot; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days paid vacation

Private healthcare

Dental & Vision Insurance

Life & Disability Insurance

401k & Roth contributions

Employee share options

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining violence prevention, behavioral risk, and online harms with practical AI safety evaluation. This senior role works with frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators to improve model safety and policy, while guiding teams and managing client engagements.

The role emphasizes red teaming, evaluation frameworks, and ethical, legal compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, online harms, or violence prevention.
• Ability to translate insights for technical and government audiences.
• Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories.
• Proven project, team, and budget management skills.
• Excellent written communication for government, foundations, or enterprise.
• Comfort with highly sensitive content and wellbeing practices.
• Strong judgment navigating ambiguity and stakeholder environments.
• Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours as needed.
• Eligible to work in the US and pass security clearance procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and quality-assure AI safety work across harm categories using red teaming and adversarial evaluation.
• Advise frontier AI companies on improving model safety, products, policies, and interventions.
• Translate insights from experts into actionable guidance for technical and gov audiences.
• Set the methodological approach for the AI safety portfolio and evaluation frameworks.
• Lead red teaming and evaluation with test scenarios, scoring, and policy alignment.
• Identify patterns and risks and develop practical recommendations for model behavior and protections.
• Maintain rigorous documentation for technical, government, and foundation audiences.
• Ensure ethical and legal compliance across contractual and data-protection obligations.
• Identify operational, reputational, and delivery risks and manage them.
• Represent Moonshot externally in meetings with regulators and sector engagements.
• Provide leadership and coaching to Moonshot's AI safety team.
• Support workforce planning, performance management, and professional development.
• Coordinate with internal teams supporting the portfolio (ops, finance, research, engineering).
• Develop AI safety portfolio growth, partnerships, and funding opportunities.
• Lead proposal development and renewals with precise language for technical/government audiences.
• Develop repeatable methodologies and service offerings for portfolio growth.
• Support external communications and thought leadership.
• Oversee project planning, staffing, budgeting, and delivery timelines.

Skills

Trust & Safety

AI safety

Project management

People management

Written communication

Security clearance

Business development

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining violence prevention, behavioral risk, and online harms with practical AI safety evaluation. This senior role works with frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators to improve model safety and policy, while guiding teams and managing client engagements.

The role emphasizes red teaming, evaluation frameworks, and ethical, legal compliance.