Senior AI Biosecurity Scientist — Remote, Flexible PTO

SecureBio, LLC; Cambridge, Berkeley (MA, CA); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

SecureBio, LLC seeks a Senior Research Scientist to evaluate frontier AI models for dual-use biological risks, run technical assessment pipelines, analyze model behavior, and author reports for stakeholders. You will help shape safety standards and work with policy bodies to advance evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities include executing evaluation workflows, identifying risk levels, and communicating complex results clearly.

Qualifications

• PhD in pathogen biology, microbiology, virology, or a closely related field.
• Wet-lab experience is preferred.
• Strategic judgment about how evaluation results map onto real-world biological risk.
• Ability to turn complex technical results into clear, well-structured writing.
• Comfort with short, intensive project cycles and shifting priorities with emerging model releases.

Responsibilities

• Carry out high-quality capability and safeguard assessments of emerging AI models.
• Execute evaluation pipelines, analyze data and map results to threat models and risk levels.
• Manually assess models for willingness and knowledge across biological domains.
• Synthesize findings into clear evaluation reports, technical write-ups, and risk summaries for partners and regulators.
• Contribute to papers, reports, and our public dashboard of trends in capabilities.

Skills

Analytical writing

Strategic judgment

Communication

Adaptability

Education

PhD in pathogen biology, microbiology, virology, or closely related field

Tools

Python

Inspect AI framework

Job description

SecureBio, LLC seeks a Senior Research Scientist to evaluate frontier AI models for dual-use biological risks, run technical assessment pipelines, analyze model behavior, and author reports for stakeholders. You will help shape safety standards and work with policy bodies to advance evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities include executing evaluation workflows, identifying risk levels, and communicating complex results clearly.