Head of AI Safety

RemoteLeadPosted Aug 17, 2026

AILLMs+2 more

About this role

Lead Moonshot's AI Safety portfolio, combining violence prevention and online harms expertise with AI system safety evaluation. Serve as primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators through red teaming, adversarial evaluation, and advisory work.

Must have

Experience in trust and safety, online harms, violence prevention, safeguarding, or public health adaptable to AI systems

Curiosity about AI with ability to build technical fluency quickly for credible engagement with technical counterparts

Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for violent extremism, CSEA, self-harm, crisis, or targeted violence

Demonstrated experience managing projects, teams, budgets, partners, and clients with strong people management skills

Excellent written communication producing credible material for government, foundation, or enterprise audiences

Comfort and resilience working with highly sensitive or graphic content with awareness of wellbeing practices

Strong judgment navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive stakeholder environments with external representation

Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours for clients or incident response

Highly trustworthy with discretion and diplomacy willing to undertake security clearance procedures

Experience supporting business development, grant funding, or procurement

Commitment to Moonshot's mission

Eligibility to work in Canada with successful standard background check and security clearances per client needs

Technologies

PythonMachine learningAILLMs

Responsibilities

Lead and quality-assure applied AI safety work across harm categories using red teaming and adversarial evaluation methods

Advise frontier AI companies on improving model, product, policy, and intervention system safety

Translate subject-matter expert insights into actionable guidance for model safety, policy, product, research, and engineering teams

Set methodological approach translating violence-prevention and behavioural-risk expertise into structured evaluation frameworks

Lead and participate directly in red teaming and adversarial evaluation with test scenarios, model responses, scoring criteria, and safety policies

Identify patterns, edge cases, and safety failures developing practical recommendations for model behaviour and user protections

Maintain rigour and clear documentation across technical deliverables for technical, government, and foundation audiences

Ensure work delivered within clear ethical framework compliant with contractual, legal, data protection, and ethics obligations

Identify, manage, and escalate operational, reputational, delivery, and partnership risks

Serve as primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI company partners, governments, regulators, and wider ecosystem

Build trusted relationships with model, policy, trust and safety, product, research, and engineering teams

Build and sustain relationships across AI safety ecosystem including governments, foundations, regulators, academics, researchers, and civil society

Represent Moonshot externally in meetings, briefings, workshops, and sector engagement with regulators and policymakers

Provide direct leadership, coaching, and management to Moonshot's AI safety team

Foster collaborative, accountable, mission-driven team culture with attention to wellbeing given sensitive nature of work

Support workforce planning, performance management, and professional development across the team

Ensure effective coordination with internal operations, finance, research, and technical teams

Develop AI safety portfolio identifying strategic opportunities, partnerships, and funding

Lead proposal development, scoping, and renewals with technical credibility using precise defensible language

Develop repeatable methodologies, service offerings, and partnerships enabling growth while maintaining rigour and quality

Support external communications, publications, briefings, and thought leadership establishing Moonshot as credible applied AI safety voice

Oversee project planning, staffing, budgeting, forecasting, and delivery timelines across portfolio

Benefits

Employee Assistance ProgramPaid parental leaveHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insurancePaid vacationFlexible hoursStock options

Amenities

25 days paid vacation leave plus statutory holidaysFlexible public holiday policy allowing exchange of statutory holidays for other days offGroup healthcare package including partners and children at 80 percent co-insuranceHealth spending account restricted to mental health practitionersLife and long-term disability insurance24/7 counselling access via Employee Assistance Program26 weeks paid maternity leave and 8 weeks paid paternity leaveShare options granted to all permanent employees upon employment

Recruitment process

Remote position requiring candidates to be based in Ontario, Canada due to employment and regulatory requirements

Not an engineering or data-science role but hands-on position requiring direct participation in red teaming and adversarial evaluation

Work addresses harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, CSEA, abuse and grooming, mental health and crisis, and risks to children and teenagers

Candidates must pass standard background check and any relevant security clearance procedures per client needs

Salary range is 115000 to 140000 CAD depending on skills and experience