Head of AI Safety

Moonshot believes that marginalized people in society, including people of colour, Indigenous people, people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, women, Disabled people, and LGBTQIA+ people, must be centred in the work we do. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities, or from other communities currently underrepresented in our workforce. All qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination based on race, creed, colour, national origin, sex, age, disability, or marital status. We know a diverse workforce will enable us to understand the drivers behind violent extremism and online harms in greater depth, and to do better work to counter them. About the role Moonshot is recruiting a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio. The role combines Moonshot 's expertise in violence prevention, behavioural risk, and online harms with the emerging practice of evaluating and improving the safety of AI systems. The portfolio addresses harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, child sexual exploitation, abuse and grooming (CSEA), mental health and crisis, and risks affecting children and teenagers. The Head of AI Safety will serve as Moonshot 's primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators. The role will work closely with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams. This is not an engineering or data-science role, but it is a hands-on position requiring the successful candidate to lead and participate directly in red teaming and adversarial evaluation, working in detail with evaluation methodologies, test scenarios, model responses, safety policies, and intervention frameworks. The role holds responsibility for client and partner relationships, project and staff management, methodological quality, and business development. The Head of AI Safety will build and maintai