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Open nowPosted 9 days ago

VP of Research

lucidcomputing9 open roles

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$250,000 – $500,000 a year
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San Francisco
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The Role

We are looking for a VP of Research to set and lead Lucid's research agenda in AI compute verification.

Lucid builds systems that produce evidence about what AI hardware is doing, where it is doing it, and whether the computation matched what was claimed. Much of the science underneath this is unsettled. It spans workload classification, network-based evidence, hardware attestation on accelerators, and physical and supply-chain assurance. With RISE, we are running an adversarial testbed on a 16-GPU H100 cluster. Mechanisms are built, attacked by an independent red team, and published either way. This role decides what we build and test next, and leads the people doing it.

Responsibilities

- Own Lucid's research agenda: which verification claims we pursue, in what order, and what counts as success

- Lead and grow the research team across hardware security, cryptography, networking and ML systems

- Direct the research program on the RISE testbed, including experiment design, red-team cycles and publication under our open protocol

- Translate policy and customer requirements into precise, testable verifiable claims, working with our policy and partnerships leads

- Represent Lucid's research externally through papers, talks, and relationships with labs, institutes and academia

- Set the bar for rigour, including publishing negative results

Requirements

- A track record of leading research in security, systems, hardware or cryptography, with published or deployed results

- Experience managing researchers or engineers and setting direction for a team

- Depth in at least one area central to our work: hardware roots of trust and TEEs, applied cryptography and proof systems, network measurement, or ML systems

- Judgement about which problems are tractable and worth the team's time

- Comfort with public, adversarial scrutiny of your work

Useful, not required

- Familiarity with the compute governance and AI verification literature

- Experience with arms-control, safeguards or other high-assurance verification regimes

- Experience running research with external partners or under grant funding

- Prior work at a startup or in an applied research lab

- A genuine interest in AI safety

Practicalities

This role can be based in San Francisco or London, or fully remote. Regular travel to Sweden should be expected. The base salary range for this role is listed above. Compensation also includes equity.

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