Pivotal, London
You support a group of fellows through the AI Safety Fellowship, so that each one does strong work and leaves with a clear next step.
You'll be the Research Manager for about 6 research fellows, supporting each project from scoping through to publication. You'll collaborate closely with our whole research management team.
You'll engage deeply with your fellows' work: reading drafts, questioning experimental designs, suggesting framings, and helping projects stay ambitious but tractable. You’ll also hold the thread that keeps projects moving and fellows well supported.
As an individual researcher, you might advance one or two projects. In this role, you'll have a hand in about 6 projects simultaneously (and about 18 projects every year). Your leverage comes from making each fellow meaningfully more effective than they would be on their own.
The AI safety field still has a limited talent pipeline, and many of the people who will shape it over the next few years are early in their careers, still developing their research taste, and often short on high-quality guidance. This role sits at that bottleneck. You’ll help the next generation of researchers produce stronger work, find the right collaborators, and move into positions where they can have outsized impact.
If you get energy from seeing other people's work click into place, this role may let you shape the field more than you could as a single researcher.
We don’t expect candidates to arrive as fully formed research managers. We do expect strong potential, good judgment, and real motivation to grow quickly in the role. The traits & backgrounds below are signals we think may matter.
We don’t expect anyone to be strong in all of this. If the role excites you, please apply, even if you match only part of what we describe here.
We review applications as they come in, so applying early helps. The process has these stages:
If you need an adjustment at any stage, such as extra time, tell us and we will arrange it. If you have questions, email team@pivotal-research.org.
Pivotal finds people who can work on the biggest risks from advanced AI and gets them working on them. Since 2024, 135 fellows have taken part in our fellowships, and alumni now work at METR, Apollo Research, UK AISI and GovAI. We have grown from 2 staff in 2024 to 10 today, and we plan to reach at least 16 in 2027. Read more about us at pivotal-research.org, and about what it is like to work here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTPz30UGF91_2bVI2EIDxWMkdMVgOVwyX5mT2Ubuad8/edit?usp=sharing.
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