Jobs in Cambridge, MA

About the role

You'll work closely with research fellows and their mentors — renowned researchers from Cambridge and beyond — to support cutting-edge work on interpretability, AI control, formal verification for provably safe AI, evaluations, and various topics in AI governance & policy. We're interested in hiring research managers with technical research experience and governance & policy research experience. Research Management (0.7 FTE) Program Management & Development (0.3 FTE) Your primary job is helping fellows execute their research projects, not shaping their research strategy. You'll coach fellows through challenges, provide feedback, and connect them with resources, but you won't set research directions or objectives; mentors and fellows own that. In some cases, with mentor and fellow approval, you may contribute substantially enough to merit co-authorship, but this is a facilitation role first and foremost.

What you'll bring

• We expect you to be characterized by most of the qualities listed below.
• Experience supporting complex intellectual work.
• You have helped others execute complex analytical or research projects.
• This might come from teaching, managing technical teams, conducting your own research, consulting, coordinating academic programs, or providing substantive feedback on others' work.
• You understand the research process from the inside.
• You've done substantial analytical work yourself (whether in academia, policy analysis, consulting, or industry research).
• This means you can recognize when a research plan is solid vs. hand-wavy, identify blockers in someone's thinking, and suggest concrete next steps.
• You're skilled at developmental feedback.
• You provide constructive feedback that advances the work, rather than simply identifying problems.
• You can help people strengthen their arguments, tighten their methodology, and present their findings more clearly, even when the specific topic is outside your core expertise.
• Excellent communicator.
• You explain complex concepts clearly and give constructive feedback effectively.

Benefits