Head of Engineering (Frontier Safety)

FAR.AI http://FAR.AI is seeking a Head of Engineering for its Frontier Safety division, which runs one of the world’s most impactful frontier AI testing programs. This role focuses on building the engineering and execution engine that enables and empowers the division’s work across testing, evaluations, tools, products, services, and research. The systems and the team you build will enable the division to execute on high-stakes engagements with frontier AI companies and leading governments, and provide these stakeholders critical insights and tools, aiming to multiply the world’s rate of progress via testing towards safe AI.

This is an opportunity to shape how AI safety is practiced at the frontier, with real impact on industry behavior, governments, public awareness, and global norms.

As Head of Engineering (Frontier Safety), you will be the senior technical owner of engineering for the FAR.AI http://FAR.AI Frontier Safety division, reporting to Kellin Pelrine https://www.far.ai/about/people/kellin-pelrine with a dotted line to Edward Yee https://www.far.ai/about/people/edward-yee. You will partner closely with Kellin, the division’s technical lead, translating broader technical strategy and priorities into a world-class engineering organization, systems, and execution.

You will build the engineering team and the systems to test critical safeguards of the next generation of AI models, evaluate their most dangerous capabilities, and help close the gaps we find.

Success for the division looks like new vulnerabilities found, a rapidly accelerating stream of vulnerabilities fixed, and safeguards strengthened. We work with leading frontier labs and governments globally to make this happen. Towards those goals, success for Engineering looks like abundant technical capacity and leverage in a division that aims to scale the level of our testing, research, products, and overall impact by 10-100x or more per year.

This means new technical capabilities move rapidly from prototype to robust deployment; infrastructure scales reliably while hiding underlying complexity; and recurring workflows become increasingly autonomous and effective. Systems your team builds will enable our high-stakes engagements, accelerate cutting-edge AI security research, and power the tools, products, and services that let us and our partners red-team and evaluate the frontier continuously and comprehensively.

Together, they will form the scalable foundation for a relentless, high-velocity division working to make advanced AI systems safer.

WHY ARE WE HIRING FOR THIS ROLE?

Our division has grown from a red team into a broader frontier safety program, and our engineering capacity has not kept pace. Today, much of our engineering is done by researchers and red-teamers alongside their main work. We are hiring a Head of Engineering to build that function, starting with a small team and growing from there, so that new research reaches production quickly and our testing can grow much faster than our headcount. For the right person, this is a chance to build the engineering behind one of the leading independent AI safety testing efforts almost from the ground up.