Convergentresearch

Field Strategist

Palo Alto, CA

No sponsorship$150k-$250kDetected 28 days ago

Machine LearningCybersecuritySketchRoadmappingSupply ChainResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

Advancements in AI bring both opportunities and serious risks.
We start from the opportunity or risk, map the context in which the need for interventions arise.
Then we sketch possible interventions, iteratively working with experts to ensure feasibility and potential stakeholders to establish sufficiency to have the desired impact.

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
seriously considered starting your own company, but the opportunity or push hasn't come up yet.

expertise in navigating and/or modifying complex systems (natural or human-made),
meaningful experience in at least one of these areas:
a founder mindset, with a high degree of ownership over outcomes (not process) and the ability to personally make and externally drive progress with little oversight.

Why advances in AI capabilities pose a specific risk to society
What a proposed intervention would look like.
Who are the best people in the world to advise and steer the intervention
(and their attestation that this solution is plausible).
What decision-makers would change their behavior because of this intervention
(and their attestation that this intervention plan is sufficient).
Who would likely fund it
(and what their decision criteria would be).
What skills and experience the founder needs (and where are we likely to find that person)
The hire has worked with a recruiter to pitch potential founders for that organization and has introduced one to potential funders.

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

have work authorization to work in the US (and ideally also would be eligible to hold a US security clearance)

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