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Preferred qualifications: * Understanding of project management, including in research settings. * Ability to drive projects. * Ability to communicate complex technical topics to leads, governance bodies and policy experts. * Excellent conceptual thinking skills. ## Description * Develop Frontier Safety Framework (FSF): research and write updates of the FSF to adapt to changing safety, governance, and policy opportunities and needs. * Research and model pre-mitigation risks to ground our empirical risk assessment work (e.g. by defining FSF thresholds) and inform safeguard development. * Work across evaluation and mitigation teams to assess the extent to which safeguards have reduced risk, and whether they are adequate for further development and deployment. * Manage a team of researchers and cross-functional collaborators working on projects, and represent the risk assessment program in internal and external governance. * Write our external safety reports, and work with appropriate policy/governance teams to strengthen the frontier AI governance ecosystem. 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