Cbai
Research Manager, AIxBio
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Work authorization required$100k-$115kDetected 113 days ago
ResearchLeadership
About the role
- Connect fellows with resources, literature, and opportunities relevant to AI x biosecurity during and after the fellowship
- Contribute to fellow selection by reviewing and interviewing candidates to ensure the cohort has strong epistemics and a relevant background
- Meet weekly with program leadership to enhance feedback loops and continuously improve the program
Responsibilities
- Mentors and fellows own the research direction.
- If you're primarily motivated by building your own research reputation, this role won't be satisfying.
- If this sounds exciting to you, and if you want to spend at least a year becoming excellent at supporting talented researchers working on one of the most important emerging risk areas, and contributing to building the Cambridge biosecurity research ecosystem, this role could be a great fit.
- Communicate with fellows' mentors to define clear research objectives and support fellows' research progression
- Contribute to the design of reading groups, workshops, and supplementary programming for the AIxBio cohort
Requirements
- Experience managing research programs or academic initiatives
- Familiarity with AI x biosecurity.
- You have meaningful exposure to biosecurity, AI safety, or the intersection of the two - through research, policy work, or adjacent professional experience.
- We want to be transparent about what this position entails so you can make an informed decision about whether it's right for you:
Compensation
- $100,000 - $115,000, depending on experience.
- For exceptional candidates, we are flexible on compensation.
- We also provide:
- 5% 403(b) match contribution
- Meals provided during weekdays
- U.S. work authorization required (we accept OPT).
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Generous PTO policy
- Employer-paid commuter benefits
- Reimbursement for work-related technology and/or home office expenses
Company info
- The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative http://cbai.ai (CBAI) is a nonprofit research organization working to advance research and education directed towards ensuring that society navigates a safe and beneficial transition to advanced AI systems.
- Our work takes the form of producing original research efforts and accelerating AI safety research through fellowship programs.
- After a successful 2025 launch of our AI Safety Research Fellowship - whose inaugural cohort published a spotlight paper at the Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at NeurIPS, placed papers at ICLR, and produced fellows now at Goodfire and Redwood Research - we're rapidly scaling in 2026.
- As part of this growth, we are launching the inaugural AIxBio Research Fellowship, bringing the same high-touch, mentor-driven research model to the intersection of AI and biosecurity.
- Refer us candidates https://airtable.com/app4zWdbexhJgyBwp/pagLKlt1Zh0RV163y/form, and receive $5,000 if we hire them.
- We are open to hiring Research Managers with technical research experience or policy and governance research experience.
- For the right fit, we are open to adjusting the scope and compensation of this role.
Visa & Work Authorization
- U.S. work authorization required (we accept OPT).
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