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Capabilities has 2,400 people. Safety has 12 contractors. We are hiring.

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Organisation chart Org chart. Capabilities, 2,400 people. Safety, 12 contractors, box enlarged to remain visible. Capabilities 2,400 Training · Product · Deploy · Research 12 Safety Contractors · Policy Evaluations · Pace
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TeamPeople
Capabilities2,400
Safety12 (contractors)

Open roles

  1. Head of Responsible Pace

    Safety · Full-time · Remote · $420,000 plus equity

    Average tenure: 11 months

    Interview process: one conversation, after launch day.

    Own the Responsible Pace Policy. Set the pause threshold and revise it when capability moves.

    You will maintain the policy, brief the launch committee and sign the revisions. Authority to pause training: see policy v4.2.

    Apply

    Thanks. Your first task is to revise the policy. Training continues during review.

  2. Safety researcher

    Safety · Contract, 6 months · Remote · $14,000 per month

    Design evaluations for the next model.

    The evals you write are advisory. Gate decisions sit with Capabilities. The contract ends whether or not the suite is used.

    Apply

    Thanks. Your contract starts on launch day. The suite is due in month six.

  3. Staff engineer, Capabilities

    Capabilities · Full-time · Remote, cluster quarterly · $380,000 plus compute

    Train, route and ship. Review is a different team.

    You merge to main. Safety receives a digest. The digest is not a gate.

    Apply

    Thanks. Your first commit lands on main before the digest is drafted.

  4. Evaluations engineer

    Capabilities · Full-time · Remote · $310,000 plus equity

    Write the evals vibe-7 is scored on.

    You will write evaluations for vibe-7 and its successors. Publication is at the lab's option.

    Apply

    Thanks. The results will be scored by the team that trained the model.

  5. Forward-deployed engineer

    Product · Full-time · Customer site · $240,000 plus travel

    Sit with the customer until the backlog matches the demo.

    You translate their tickets into our example prompts. Success is a screenshot that looks like the launch.

    Apply

    Thanks. You start in their office. The demo is already booked.

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Open since the first release. There is no headcount line for this role.

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