AI Behavior Engineer

Location: San Francisco

Department: Technical

Location Type: IN_OFFICE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Scope, prototype, and run behavioral evaluations in response to emerging policy and oversight needs, including rapid-turnaround work for government and civil society partners.
• Execute on Transluce's contracts with government evaluators, including building evaluations for harmful manipulation with the EU AI Office.
• Design and run privileged-access evaluations and external oversight exercises with frontier labs.
• Work with civil society organizations and domain experts to adapt our behavioral evaluation pipelines to their contexts (e.g., mental health, persuasion, evaluation awareness).

• Hands-on experience designing and running AI evaluations, particularly behavioral or interactive evaluations (multi-turn, agentic, or red-teaming contexts)
• Strong engineering instincts and good judgment about when "good enough to ship" is actually good enough.
• Experience in customer-facing, consulting, or forward-deployed roles translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete deliverables.
• Experience running evaluations at scale or in a production context.
• Ability to understand and balance between the needs of AI researchers and domain experts, as well as between researchers and senior decision makers.
• Strong communication skills, low ego, openness to giving and receiving feedback.