Head of Research Partnerships & Standards
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Posted 16d ago
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Remote
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Who may apply?
San Francisco, London
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The listing
The Role
We are looking for a Head of Research Partnerships & Standards to build the relationships that turn Lucid's verification work into shared infrastructure.
Verification only matters if others can check it. That requires research institutions willing to test and extend our designs, and standards bodies willing to adopt the specifications that come out of them. Our collaboration with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), an adversarial testbed on a live GPU cluster whose results are published openly, is the first of these partnerships. This role owns that relationship and builds the next ones.
Responsibilities
Own Lucid's research partnerships, starting with RISE, from scoping and agreements through to delivery and publication
Source and structure new collaborations with universities, national labs, AI safety institutes and frontier AI developers
Represent Lucid in standards and governance forums working on verifiable compute, including the Verifiable Compute Foundation, and drive specifications from draft to adoption
Work with our research and engineering teams to turn results into reference architectures, specifications and papers that others can build on
Identify and secure grant and non-dilutive funding tied to research partnerships
Build the function as it grows
Requirements
Substantial experience managing research collaborations or technical programs between organizations, such as academia–industry, public–private or multi-lab consortia
A record of taking a technical specification or standard through a formal body, or equivalent multi-stakeholder process
Enough technical depth to engage credibly with hardware, cryptography and security researchers, or a demonstrated record of getting there quickly
Strong writing for technical and non-technical audiences
Comfort operating with limited precedent, and a preference for building structure rather than inheriting it
Useful, not required
Experience with standards bodies such as ISO/IEC, IETF, OCP, IEEE or NIST processes
A research background (PhD or equivalent) in security, systems or a related field
Experience with grant-funded programs and their reporting
Familiarity with arms-control or safeguards verification
A genuine interest in AI safety and the problem verification exists to address
This role can be based in San Francisco or London, or fully remote. Some travel to partners and industry events should be expected. The base salary range for this role is listed above. Compensation also includes equity.