Head of AI Safety Data & Evaluation Programs

Lila Sciences, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Lila Sciences, Inc. is assembling a safety-focused AI team in Cambridge, MA to identify and mitigate risks from advanced AI while preserving scientific discovery. You will coordinate red-teaming, evaluations, and partnerships with researchers to turn safety questions into measurable programs.

The role emphasizes data quality, clear documentation, and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership. Compensation includes base salary with equity and comprehensive U.S. benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering expert-data, research-operations, evaluation programs.
• Strong understanding of AI safety, threat models and evaluations.
• Ability to set and improve measurable quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Organize contributors, run red-teaming and evaluation campaigns, and ensure outputs meet standards.
• Source and coordinate external experts with internal colleagues and manage onboarding.
• Run expert-data collection, annotation, red-teaming and evaluation programs.
• Maintain records, versioned guidance and usable datasets with quality feedback.
• Identify questions needing scientific escalation and route to specialists.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate risk questions into actionable program materials.

Skills

Expert-data programs

AI safety

Operational judgment

Quality standards

Communication

Tools

Annotation platforms

Data provenance tooling

Job description

Lila Sciences, Inc. is assembling a safety-focused AI team in Cambridge, MA to identify and mitigate risks from advanced AI while preserving scientific discovery. You will coordinate red-teaming, evaluations, and partnerships with researchers to turn safety questions into measurable programs.

The role emphasizes data quality, clear documentation, and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership. Compensation includes base salary with equity and comprehensive U.S. benefits.