Director of Evaluations
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Description
You will define and lead evaluation strategy, build an independent evaluations function, and develop benchmarks, datasets, red-teaming programmes, and scalable tooling. You will evaluate AI capabilities, safety, explainability, and adversarial robustness, communicate results publicly, and represent evaluation work externally.
Responsibilities
- Define the evaluations strategy and roadmap
- Build and scale the Evaluations Team
- Maintain independence from research and product streams
- Design benchmarks, datasets, tasks, and interactive environments
- Evaluate capabilities, safety, explainability, and adversarial robustness
- Lead guardrail evaluations for frontier models
- Establish automated and manual red-teaming programmes
- Build evaluation tooling and infrastructure
- Publish evaluation results through reports, system cards, publications, and blog posts
- Represent evaluation work with external organizations
Requirements
- Advanced degree in machine learning, computer science, or a closely related field
- 10+ years of machine learning experience
- At least 5 years of technical team leadership experience
- Expertise designing and running large-scale evaluations of LLMs or frontier ML systems
- Experience building evaluation datasets, benchmarks, or interactive environments
- Written and verbal communication skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Minimum 20 days of vacation per year upon start
- Minimum 4% employer retirement savings contribution
- Flexible benefits for well-being
