Special Projects Associate

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. We address AI’s toughest challenges through technical research, field-building initiatives, and policy engagement, along with our other organization, Center for AI Safety Action Fund. The Special Projects Associate partners closely with the Executive Director and Managing Director to identify, evaluate, and launch new initiatives at the earliest stages of CAIS’s project pipeline. You’ll lead the full lifecycle—investigating new opportunities, drafting clear project briefs, building timelines and budgets, and driving delivery through our project-management system. Along the way, you’ll coordinate researchers, vendors, and other stakeholders, monitor risks, and keep leadership informed with crisp documentation and reporting. This hands-on role sits at CAIS’s “discovery” frontier, turning ambitious AI-safety concepts into concrete results with speed, rigor, and constant attention to mission alignment. AI-safety communication is at a genuine inflection point. AI safety videos, articles, and social posts are now reaching millions, and public curiosity is compounding by the week. CAIS aims to harness this surge by spinning up several high-leverage projects on an accelerated timeline.