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title: 'Technical Program Manager, Research at FAR.AI'
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# Technical Program Manager, Research at FAR.AI

- **Company:** FAR.AI
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/far.ai/00763d58-c6ae-4334-a521-71e734a6a65b

## 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 45+ staff https://www.far.ai/about/team, published 40+ academic papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FVJ24k8AAAAJ including an ICML 2026 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/60766, 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.

## ABOUT RESEARCH AT FAR.AI http://FAR.AI

FAR.AI http://FAR.AI conducts research to address fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) safety challenges. We rapidly explore a diverse portfolio of technical research agendas, de-risking and scaling up only the most promising solutions. We share our research outputs through peer-reviewed publications, via partnerships with governmental AI safety institutes, and through red-teaming engagements for leading AI companies.

FAR.Research is dedicated to delivering the novel technical breakthroughs needed to mitigate the potential risks posed by frontier AI. As a non-profit research institute, we leverage our unique flexibility to focus on critical research directions that may be too large or resource-intensive for academia and often overlooked by the commercial sector due to their lack of immediate profitability.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for Technical Program Managers to define programs for both our foundational research and research infrastructure teams. Our Research organization is scaling up by expanding our portfolio of research agendas, including model deception, applied interpretability, evaluation awareness, pre-training filtering, and open-weight safety. As our Research portfolio expands, our Research Infrastructure needs will also scale up to meet these needs. You'll find the highest-leverage problems and own them end to end, building the processes, systems, and tooling that help our researchers and engineers move faster.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Take complex technical programs from idea to delivery: scope the plan and milestones, then keep complex, multi-team work moving efficiently, transparently, and to a high technical bar.
- Prioritize across competing demands in partnership with research teams so the teams’ effort lands on the highest-impact work.
- Build and maintain compute and resource roadmaps by surfacing bottlenecks and trade-offs, finding ways to accelerate progress and build relationships with potential external partners.
- Partner with researchers to package their work effectively to get our research into the hands of people who can act on it by transferring findings, methods, and tools to frontier labs and other stakeholders.
- Connect research and engineering with our internal partners in Operations, Events and Communications giving each the timelines, results, and context they need to plan, resource, and communicate our work.

THIS ROLE IS A GREAT FIT IF YOU:

- Are a fast learner and comfortable with ramping up quickly on unfamiliar technical domains to hold your own in discussions with researchers and engineers.
- Can reason about technical trade-offs in depth (e.g. measuring quality of agent output balanced against credit spend, compute efficiency, and training and inference infrastructure) to facilitate clear decisions by stakeholders.
- Enjoy 0-to-1 work by building the processes, systems, and structure where none exist, rather than inheriting them.
- Thrive in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment that is scaling quickly.
- Hold a deep commitment to ensuring safe and beneficial AI.

THIS ROLE IS A POOR FIT IF YOU:

- Have no technical background. You don't need to code, but you do need to understand AI/ML well enough to hold your own in discussions with researchers and follow the substance of the work.
- Want to inherit a mature TPM function rather than help build one.
- Are looking for a product management role with a product roadmap, rather than driving programs, processes, and delivery across research and infrastructure.

## ABOUT YOU

Strong candidates typically have many (but not all) of the following skills:

- A strong technical background, either in ML, software engineering, or another scientific or research field, with 4+ years building technical programs from scratch
- Practical domain experience in AI/ML such as coordinating model releases, procuring or managing datasets, or supporting evaluations
- A track record of delivering complex technical programs while managing tradeoffs and strategic priorities
- Have successfully facilitated technology transfer of foundational and applied research into production environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

It is a plus (but not required) if you have experience with:

- Delivery at a frontier AI lab or AI safety institute
- Scientific computing cluster management
- Public storytelling through interactive demos or blog posts
- Supporting hiring processes for technical staff

## BENEFITS*

- 🩺 Health Insurance - 94% of Insurance premium paid by Organization commencing within 1 month after your start date
- 💰 Retirement - 401(k) plan with up to 2% match
- 🏝️ PTO - 25 days Paid Time Off per year, accrued weekly and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year
- 🚼 Paid Leave - Paid Bereavement, Family, Medical and Pregnancy Disability Leave
- 🖥️ WFH Stipend & Equipment - Work computer and stipend provided for eligible employees
- 🍽️ Catered Meals (Berkeley Office Only) - Catered lunches and dinners on workdays at our office

*(Available only to full-time employees located in the US)

## LOGISTICS

If based in the USA, you will be an employee of FAR.AI http://FAR.AI (501(c)(3) research non-profit / non-profit CLG). Outside the USA, you will be employed via an EOR organization (employment contract) on behalf of FAR.AI http://FAR.AI or as a contractor.

- Location: Remote U.S. or Bay Area in-office. We can sponsor US visas.
- Hours: Full-time. 10% travel may be required.

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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