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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 1 day AI Security Institute's roles stay open a median of 14 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of AI Security Institute's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at AI Security Institute
- moderate 4 stale, 1 reposted of 12 open
- Hiring momentum
- 15 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Engineering Lead for the Human Influence team at the AI Security Institute will manage a team focused on understanding how AI influences human behavior and decision-making. Daily responsibilities include overseeing the development of evaluations and data pipelines, leading research studies, and designing scalable systems for AI model assessments. The role combines leadership with hands-on engineering tasks, requiring collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Experience leading a complex engineering or research project from scoping to deployment or publication
- Clear understanding of how AI and coding assistants should change engineering team dynamics
- Understanding of current AI safety literature and interest in Human Influence topics
- Experience translating research questions into reproducible engineering tasks
- Proven experience working with non-technical stakeholders to support a product or research roadmap
- Clear grasp of software design concepts for cloud deployments and databases, including Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS
Nice to have
- Experience shipping an AI safety pipeline to production
- Experience using data to answer complex research questions
- Experience with frontend technologies like TypeScript and node.js
- Line management experience of at least 1 year
- Experience hiring and mentoring technical staff
What you get
- Impact on AI governance and deployment
- Supportive and mission-driven colleagues
- Pre-release access to frontier models and ample compute resources
- Extensive operational support for research
- 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development
- Hybrid working and flexibility for remote work
Worth weighing
- No specific salary range mentioned, but offers vary based on experience and role level
- Role requires strong technical expertise in frontier AI safety and advanced architectures
- Candidates without engineering leadership experience may consider a different position
- Criminal record check and security clearance required for successful candidates
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Listed by AI Security Institute on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.