Head of AI Safety & Risk Governance with Equity Options

Moonshot; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare package

Dental & Vision Insurance

Life & Disability Insurance

401k with matching

Paid vacation + holidays

Job summary

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining expertise in violence prevention, behavioral risk, and online harms with frontier AI safety practices.

This senior role collaborates with policy, research, engineering and product teams to steer red teaming, evaluation frameworks, and client engagements while building a trusted ecosystem with regulators and industry partners.

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety or related field and applying that knowledge to AI systems.
• Ability to design research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories such as violent extremism, CSEA, crisis content, or targeted violence.

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, policies, and intervention systems.
• Translate insights from safety and safeguarding experts into actionable guidance for product, policy, and engineering teams.
• Set the methodological approach for the portfolio and develop structured evaluation frameworks.
• Lead and participate in red teaming and evaluation with test scenarios, model responses, and scoring criteria.
• Identify patterns and safety risks and provide practical recommendations for improving model behavior and protections.

Skills

Trust & safety

AI safety

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Moonshot is seeking a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio, combining expertise in violence prevention, behavioral risk, and online harms with frontier AI safety practices.

This senior role collaborates with policy, research, engineering and product teams to steer red teaming, evaluation frameworks, and client engagements while building a trusted ecosystem with regulators and industry partners.