Job Overview
Harvard Kennedy School is hiring full-time Research Assistants to support Professor Stephen Casper's work on AI safeguards, incidents, and governance.
The positions are split across two tracks. The technical track covers adversarial ML, ML safeguards, and ML engineering.
Technical-track RAs perform technical research and engineering on frontier AI safeguards, with an emphasis on safeguards against malicious tampering for open-weight AI models.
Technical candidates should have prior experience at the master's degree level or equivalent in ML engineering, adversarial ML, and ML safeguards science.
The legal track covers AI incidents, torts, and laws, with an emphasis on understanding the AI ecosystem and its technical challenges.
Legal-track RAs communicate technical findings to lawyers and policymakers; candidates need master's-level experience in policy, governance, or law.
All work is done with the intent of producing publicly available research.
The Harvard Kennedy School cannot sponsor visas for this position.
To apply, candidates submit a CV and cover letter to scasper@hks.harvard.edu; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Original posting: https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/hiring-research-assistant-positions-ai-safeguards-and-ai-governance