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Incubated Founder

Palo Alto, CA · Exec · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$250kDetected 22 days ago

AlgorithmsMachine LearningResearchCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

Advancements in AI bring both opportunities and serious risks.
Our job is to lower the barriers to entry - both the cost of leaving your current career path and the risk that a good idea never gets off the ground - and to meaningfully raise the odds that the effort you launch succeeds.
Cohort 1: Securing AI Infrastructure While future cohorts will tackle other neglected topics in navigating transformative AI, the first cohort focuses on securing AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Atlas Computing takes on society-scale AI risks that no existing institution is built to address - we design the intervention, validate it with domain experts and funders, then recruit and empower the specialist who will own it.
A design studio developing and staffing product requirements docs for coordination and market failures
leaders who identify an overlooked, high-impact, and tractable problem; develop effective interventions; and ultimately take personal responsibility for bringing those interventions into the world.
That's why Atlas Computing is launching a selective program for people with deep domain expertise and the drive to address the most important risks facing society from growing AI capabilities.
sharpening a concrete intervention, pressure-testing it against the field, building the relationships and founding team to execute it, and leaving with a grant proposal and the backing to pursue it.
Founders will have between six months and two years to research a problem and develop a pitch, but we hold that loosely - a Founder is done when their effort is ready to stand on its own, not when a calendar says so.
The goal is for Founders to develop an ambitious plan as quickly as possible (early graduations welcome), complete with conditionally committed users/stakeholders, an excellent founding team, expert advisors, and organizational plans like milestones - completion consists of pitching funders like Coefficient Giving and launching with an initial grant of around $10 million.
Joining the incubator does not guarantee funding for your project, but the goal of the program is to develop plans funders are excited to scale.
If there's not a mutually satisfactory project to scale up, we'll support you in finding your next role.
Experience working on cybersecurity in a national security context (especially building SL5 facilities, intelligence, or offensive security).

Skills

You become a grantmaker or " general manager " of grantmakers directing serious capital across this field

Compensation

$150k-$250k

Company info

Comfort with uncertainty and interest in shaping our culture, as we're still a very small organization.

Visa & Work Authorization

Have work authorization in the US.

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