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# General Expression of Interest at FAR.AI

- **Company:** FAR.AI
- **Location:** Berkeley
- **Employment:** temporary
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-04-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/far.ai/fb89d27b-3057-46df-bb0b-7d31e142ebb2/application

> This is a general expression of interest for future opportunities at FAR AI, a non-profit AI research institute focused on ensuring advanced AI is safe. Candidates are invited to submit their details for potential roles in AI safety research, lab co-working, or community programs.

## Job description

## ABOUT US

FAR.AI http://FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. Our mission is to facilitate breakthrough AI safety research, advance global understanding of AI risks and solutions, and foster a coordinated global response.

Since our founding in July 2022, we've grown to 40+ staff https://www.far.ai/about/team, published 40+ academic papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FVJ24k8AAAAJ, and convened leading AI safety events https://far.ai/events/. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/175e5314-a7f7-4741-a786-273219f433a1, Nature News https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7 and MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/28/905615/reinforcement-learning-adversarial-attack-gaming-ai-deepmind-alphazero-selfdriving-cars/. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI and independent evaluations for governments including the EU AI Office https://www.far.ai/news/far-ai-selected-to-lead-eu-ai-act-cbrn-risk-consortium. We help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06624 research https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20702 roadmaps https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396910034_Open_Technical_Problems_in_Open-Weight_AI_Model_Risk_Management with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs https://www.far.ai/programs/far-labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley housing 40 members; and supporting the community through targeted grants https://www.far.ai/programs/grantmaking to technical researchers.

If you currently don't see a posted role that aligns with your skills and interests, please fill out this general form of expression of interest for future opportunities that may be a better match.

Thank you for your interest in FAR.AI and we look forward to hearing from you!

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact us at talent@far.ai. Otherwise, if you don't have questions, the best way to ensure a proper review of your skills and qualifications is by applying directly via the application form. Please don't email us to share your resume (it won't have any impact on our decision). Thank you!

## About FAR.AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FAR.AI is a technical AI safety research non-profit dedicated to ensuring advanced AI systems are safe and beneficial for everyone through in-house research, grantmaking, and global coordination events.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Non-profit, fiscally sponsored project)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, USA
- **Founded**: July 2022 (incorporated October 2022)
- **Founders**: Adam Gleave (CEO) and Karl Berzins (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Safety Research, Research Services
- **Target customers**: Policymakers, industry leaders, academic researchers, and the broader AI safety ecosystem (primarily B2B/Institutional)
- **Mission**: To ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The organization is motivated by the potential risks posed by rapid advances in AI capabilities.

## Products & Services
- **FAR.Research**: In-house technical research team exploring early-stage agendas for AI safety, including adversarial robustness, AI control, and scaling issues. Publishes influential papers and open-source tools.
- **FAR.Labs**: A collaborative co-working space in Berkeley for AI safety researchers and organizations, hosting over 40 active members and fostering a thriving community.
- **FAR.Futures (formerly FAR.Grants)**: A targeted grantmaking program supporting academics and independent researchers developing innovative solutions to critical AI risks. Has directed millions of dollars in funding.
- **Events & Conferences**: Organizes high-impact events including the Alignment Workshop series (global), Berkeley ControlConf 2026 (AI control), and the Technical Innovations for AI Policy (TIAP) Conference, connecting policymakers with leading AI technical experts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (non-profit)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not disclosed (non-profit, fiscally sponsored). Key output: 30+ research publications, 1000+ attendees across 10+ events.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Collaborations with leading think tanks, academic groups (e.g., CHAI, MATS, Apart Research), and major media outlets (Nature, MIT Technology Review, Financial Times, NYT). Fiscally sponsored project of IDAIS.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 53.1% YoY (from ~17 to 34 employees as of mid-2026). Expanded to 8 countries (US, UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore, Mexico, Australia). LinkedIn followers grew 171.4% yearly. Research cited in US Senate hearings (Stuart Russell testimony).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technical Breakthroughs**: Published influential work on adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs (featured in Nature), multi-agent adversarial policies, and red teaming leading language models for frontier labs.
- **Ecosystem Centrality**: Runs the only dedicated AI safety coworking space (FAR.Labs) and a premier grantmaking program, positioning FAR.AI as a hub connecting academia, industry, and policy.
- **Policy Influence**: TIAP Conference directly connects policymakers with technical experts; research cited in congressional testimony.
- **Top Talent Magnet**: Attracts researchers from top AI labs (Anthropic, Google DeepMind) and academic safety hubs (Cambridge AI Safety Hub, CHAI).

## Strategic Focus
- **Field Building**: Scaling the global AI safety ecosystem through grants, events, and coworking space.
- **Technical Innovation**: Continuing to explore early-stage, high-impact research agendas (e.g., AI control, robustness, adversarial training) until they can be adopted by the broader community.
- **Policy Engagement**: Deepening connections between technical experts and policymakers to ensure safety techniques are adopted.
- **Talent Development**: Expanding the team with world-class researchers, engineers, and operations staff to tackle critical AI safety challenges.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees report high satisfaction (5.0/5.0 on Culture, 5.0/5.0 on Work-Life on LinkedIn). The mission to make advanced AI safe is described as "one of the most critical challenges of our time."
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-first with a physical HQ in Berkeley. Offers both remote and onsite roles. The Berkeley office (FAR.Labs) fosters a collaborative, startup-like atmosphere.
- **Team Composition**: Small, high-agency team of ~34 people with a flat structure. Heavy emphasis on research (18% of staff) and project management (12%). Senior leadership includes former Anthropic and DeepMind researchers.
- **Compensation & Perks**: Rated 4.0/5.0 on Compensation. As a non-profit, likely offers competitive (but not market-maxing) salaries with strong mission alignment. Perks include the coworking space, events, and a highly collaborative environment.
- **Career Growth**: High growth trajectory (53% YoY headcount increase) means rapid advancement opportunities. Employees often move to top AI labs (Anthropic, DeepMind, Stability AI) after their tenure.
- **Notable**: Currently hiring for Jailbreaking Lead (Red Team), Executive Operations Assistant, and Technical Project Manager (Red Team).

## Sources
1. [far.ai](https://www.far.ai/)
2. [far.ai/about](https://www.far.ai/about)
3. [far.ai/careers](https://www.far.ai/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/far-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/far-ai)
5. [builtin.com/company/farai](https://builtin.com/company/farai)

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