Schmidt Entities
Program Scientist, Agents
New York, NY
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$375kDetected 146 days ago
LLMsAgentic AIForecastingBudgetingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringWriting
About the role
- Strategy & scientific direction: Oversee the program's strategy, setting ambitious, concrete, and measurable goals for the program, being responsible for delivery against those goals, and helping to measure progress against the strategy.
- Sourcing & Selection: Oversee the program's efforts to identify, source, and fund the best people and projects, in line with the program's strategy.
- Assessment: Participate in the internal assessment process, including the analysis of incoming scientific proposals and reports in context of the current landscape.
Responsibilities
- Science of AI - understanding and controlling AI systems to mitigate and manage potential risks from advanced AI.
- We recently started a small pilot grantmaking program dedicated to an aspect of AI agent communication, and we expect to specifically support more agent-related research in the future.
- This pilot program supports researchers in academia and nonprofits who are exploring how multiple intelligent agents communicate and coordinate with one another.
- Advancing foundational research on multi-agent communication and coordination. ● Building an open-source platform where researchers can design and implement realistic challenges and test how multi-agent systems work together in complex, high-pressure environments.
- The platform will host realistic, demanding challenges that require agents with diverse training and capabilities to collaborate in order to succeed.
- These environments are designed to surface how agent communication and coordination strategies emerge, adapt, and sometimes diverge from earlier patterns under pressure.
- This program will produce published papers and other open research artifacts, insights for the agents research community, and a testbed for developing and running multi-agent challenges.
- If successful, this program will enable more robust and trustworthy agent design, as well as more effective teams and ad hoc collections of AI agents that cooperate while remaining legible to humans.
- (Primary responsibility) Manage the AI Agents pilot program ● Design and build new AI agents and other AI programs ● Support other programs and program explorations across the AI Center ● Contribute to the overall strategy of
- Manage the program's budget, monitoring expenditures and forecasting future needs to ensure efficient use of resources.
Requirements
- Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Nice to have
- Serve as an expert advisor at Schmidt Sciences on topics in AI and advanced computing.
- Participate in relevant industry or academic conferences and events, representing Schmidt Sciences' presence on AI and advanced computing issues.
- 4+ years of post-graduate experience
- A scientific doctorate from an accredited institution
- Ability to critically analyze and assess grant proposals and other opportunities
- Deep relationships in the AI community and experience working with AI-focused institutions
- Experience producing technical writing for expert and general audiences
- Be able to travel within the U.S. and internationally on a regular basis as needed.
Compensation
- $250k-$375k
Benefits
- Manage and convene external advisors as needed to ensure program benefits from top scientific thinking at the intersection of AI and humanities.
Apply directly at Schmidt Entities →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Schmidt Entities immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from Schmidt Entities's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.