Senior Chemist — AI Safety & Dual-Use Risk

Lila Sciences, Inc.; Cambridge, San Francisco (MA, CA); Presencial; USD 148.000 - 208.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Bonus potential

Early-stage equity

Descripción de la vacante

Lila Sciences, Inc. is building a high-agency AI safety team and seeks a chemist to map risk across chemical sciences, connecting deep chemistry with dual-use risk assessment to safeguard advancing AI capabilities.

The role focuses on translating scientific risk judgments into practical safety boundaries and mitigation requirements. You will collaborate across science, engineering and policy, evaluate emerging threats, and contribute to safeguarding research while preserving the core discovery

Formación

• PhD in synthetic chemistry or closely related discipline.
• Background in molecular design and medicinal chemistry, inorganic/organometallic chemistry, synthesis, process development and formulations.
• Experience assessing chemical dual-use risks (national security, export controls, etc.).
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar questions and recognize limits of expertise.
• Ability to identify appropriate specialists and synthesize cross-disciplinary evidence into risk assessments.
• Clear scientific communication and ability to collaborate across science, engineering and policy.

Responsabilidades

• Map chemical misuse risks across models, agents and automated experimentation.
• Assess how feasibility, practical constraints and actors' resources affect misuse.
• Differentiate established capabilities, plausible future developments and weakly supported hypotheses.
• Identify gaps and frame questions for consultants and specialist organizations.
• Translate scientific risk judgments into dual-use policy boundaries and mitigation requirements.
• Collaborate with threat modelers, evaluation researchers and mitigation teams.

Conocimientos

Chemistry expertise

Dual-use risk assessment

Scientific judgment

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Scientific communication

Educación

PhD in synthetic chemistry or related field

Herramientas

Computational modeling

Descripción del empleo

Lila Sciences, Inc. is building a high-agency AI safety team and seeks a chemist to map risk across chemical sciences, connecting deep chemistry with dual-use risk assessment to safeguard advancing AI capabilities.

The role focuses on translating scientific risk judgments into practical safety boundaries and mitigation requirements. You will collaborate across science, engineering and policy, evaluate emerging threats, and contribute to safeguarding research while preserving the core discovery