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Head of Evaluations, reporting to the Head of Research. The Head of Evaluations runs one team across capability and safety evals on the lab's foundation models.
A frontier model lab building general-purpose foundation models. Around 130 staff, research-dense. The lab publishes evaluation research regularly, and the Head of Evaluations is one of the named authors.
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Head of Evaluations, reporting to the Head of Research. The seat is one of four research area leads under the new Head of Research's structure.
Direct line management of around 12 evaluations researchers and engineers across two squads — capability evaluations and safety evaluations. Hiring three further senior researchers in the first nine months.
Owns the lab's pre-deployment evaluation programme for the next flagship model and the lab's engagement with the relevant AI Safety Institutes in the UK and US.
London-based, office-first three days per week. Travel to relevant policy convenings expected each quarter.
The Head of Evaluations runs one team across capability and safety evals on the lab's foundation models. Capability work and safety work sit under the same head, on the same roadmap, with the same researchers. The role reports into the Head of Research, who has shaped it from the start and will be the day-one working relationship. Evaluations are part of what the lab publishes, so the work is visible externally as well as inside the research org.
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