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# Research Engineer, AIUC Labs at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

- **Company:** Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/6498a25d-02fe-4a6a-9e93-5c7028721c0b

## Job description

## About AIUC

AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI. Our mission is to [Underwrite superintelligence](https://underwriting-superintelligence.com/). We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI.

AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us.

## The Role

Superintelligence raises imminent questions: What models are safe to be released? How is the progress of recursive self-improvement audited? How should lab incentives be shaped? Who governs self-sovereign agents and what should incident forensics look like? Fortunately, researchers, auditors, hackers and actuaries have grappled with older versions of these questions for decades across nuclear energy, electricity, and car safety.

AIUC applies that same combination to AI. AIUC-1 lets us underwrite the world's first agent insurance policy. We hold eval data across the most-used AI agents, a team with both frontier AI and traditional risk experience, and a consortium of Fortune 1000 security leaders.

Answering these questions in time means combining frontier AI research with risk tools that already work. That's why we're founding AIUC Labs – a research lab which will exist so that AIUC and the world at large is on the frontier in navigating AGI. You will work directly with the founders to build out a new function and publish research that will guide the industry on what’s next. In this role, you will:

- Own the questions that decide the strategic direction of AIUC: where AI capability & risk goes over the next 3-5 years, what replaces evals as agents get more capable, whether models behave differently when they know they are being tested, and how AI shifts the offense–defense balance in security
- Take confidence infrastructure upstream to the model layer, where independent standards, rigorous evaluation and third-party assurance have to meet the release decisions labs are making now
- Turn what AIUC has actually done into evidence, publish research and shape our public research programme, including the podcast and writing, that increases our influence in the space

## What we’re looking for

- You’re a strong engineer, and can design and independently build, debug, and maintain research code and experiment pipelines.
- You can read an ML paper and implement it quickly, and extend or adapt it to a new research question.
- You can iterate and experiment quickly, such as working through an ambiguous open-ended question and turning into a tractable experiment, choosing baselines, and investigating unexpected details, as well as deciding what comes next.
- You have a strong background in ML, CS, or an adjacent quantitative field, developed through a combination of engineering and research.

## Nice to have

- You might be coming from a frontier lab, a third-party evaluation organisation, or an ML team at a technology company in e.g., science of evals, security research, forecasting, or interpretability.
- You’re familiar with the model training pipeline, and have trained, fine-tuned, probed models, or built infrastructure that makes experimentation scalable.
- Published work that people in the field actually engaged with: a first-author paper, a benchmark others adopted, shifted how a community thought about something, was built into a product, or changing how real systems get deployed
- Range across the philosopher-to-engineer spectrum — comfortable arguing about where capability is heading in three years, and comfortable writing the code that tests whether you're right.

## Our Values

We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers.

- Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard.
- Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace.
- Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work.
- Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions. Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours, apply now.

## Compensation & Perks

- Competitive annual salary
- Equity (significant part of total compensation)
- Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed
- Daily lunch, dinner & snacks

## About Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AIUC builds the confidence infrastructure—standards, audits, and insurance—to certify and insure AI agents, enabling enterprise adoption.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024 based on funding timeline)
- **Founders**: Rune Kvist (CEO), Rajiv Dattani, Brandon Kent Wang (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI risk & insurance, AI standards & certification, enterprise AI trust infrastructure
- Target customers: AI agent companies (B2B) and their enterprise customers (B2B, Enterprise)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building the trust infrastructure for AI agents" and "Underwrite superintelligence" [aiuc.com](https://aiuc.com/)

## Products & Services
- **AIUC-1 Standard**: The first comprehensive standard for AI agent safety, covering data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal risks. Companies certify against this standard to earn enterprise confidence. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Insurance for AI Agents**: Backed by the world’s most trusted insurers, covering AI-specific risks up to $50M in losses. Protects AI companies’ enterprise customers financially if an AI agent fails. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Gap Analysis & Technical Testing**: A risk assessment service providing a full overview of an AI agent’s safety, security, and reliability posture, with eval test results available within 24 hours. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Audit Support**: Supports companies through the AIUC-1 certification journey to meet the gold standard. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $15M (Seed round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Seed round led by Nat Friedman. Investors include Emergence, Terrain, an Anthropic co-founder, and former Chief Information Security Officers at Google Cloud and MongoDB. Customers/partners include Ada (AI customer service leader) and Intercom. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 700% YoY (from ~2 to 16 employees). Monthly growth of 14.3%. Published research paper "Underwriting Superintelligence." Has active job postings for Founding Recruiter and Member of Technical Staff. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aiunderwriting)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI agent insurance**: Building a new category—"confidence infrastructure"—that combines certification and insurance specifically for AI agents.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders and team have experience at Anthropic, McKinsey insurance, METR, and Center for AI Safety, bringing together AI risk and insurance knowledge. [aiuc.com/team](https://aiuc.com/team)
- **Proprietary standard (AIUC-1)**: A comprehensive, technically rigorous standard that goes far beyond typical enterprise requirements (e.g., ISO 42001), covering jailbreaks, prompt injections, data leakage, and hallucinations.
- **Backed by top-tier insurers**: Insurance policies are backed by "the world’s most trusted insurers," unlocked by their underwriting. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)
- **Strong enterprise traction**: Already working with major players like Ada (which enabled a top social media platform) and Intercom, turning security from a blocker into a differentiator. [aiuc.com/product](https://aiuc.com/product)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the standard**: Grow AIUC-1 as the de facto industry standard for AI agent certification.
- **Expand insurance coverage**: Increase policy limits and coverage scope as AI agents become more capable and deployed in higher-stakes applications.
- **Accelerate enterprise adoption**: Remove the "procurement blocker" for AI agents by providing the confidence infrastructure enterprises need.
- **Talent acquisition**: Currently

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