AI Ethics & Evaluation Associate; R&D Projects

Eticas.ai audits and evaluates socio-technical AI systems across the globe, stress testing AI systems and their surrounding governance controls and processes to improve the AI system's performance. A share of our evaluation work happens inside large research and development consortia: multi-year, multi-partner projects developing new AI-based technologies (from the design stage to pilot interventions to deployed solutions), which our team advises on, tests, and audits.

We're a small company punching above our weight in rooms usually dominated by universities and large consultancies, and we need someone in those rooms with a strong technical understanding and good grasp of AI ethics to advise technical teams, shape our contribution, and spot where Eticas.ai can do more.

This role is a great opportunity for someone to quickly gain an understanding of how an early-stage company moves within one of the hottest verticals in the tech industry right now, AI evaluation. A fast learner will be able to quickly go from taking minutes to proposing new AI audits/evaluations within these projects.

This role will not come with detailed, step-by-step instructions for every task. You'll be told what a consortium needs and what “good” looks like, then trusted to get there — finding how similar deliverables have been written before, asking a sharp clarifying question when something is unclear, and making a reasonable call instead of waiting to be walked through it.

This is probably not the right role for you if you need written instructions for recurring tasks, tend to wait to be asked rather than flagging things yourself, or find ambiguity stressful rather than energizing.

This is probably exactly the right role for you if you've ever finished a group project by quietly redoing someone else's section because you couldn't stand seeing it done badly, if you like being the person who remembers the deadline nobody else tracked, or if representing a company in a room full of larger, better-resourced organizations sounds exciting rather than intimidating.

We're a fully remote team, spread across time zones and continents, but we work very closely together. We stay aligned through regular team syncs and project check-ins, and we default to clear, proactive communication and organized documentation, so distance never becomes disconnection.

We give people real flexibility in how and when they work. In return, we expect real ownership: you're accountable for outcomes, not hours online. It's a team built on trust, where independence and collaboration reinforce each other. English is our working language.

We care more about attitude than credentials for this one. The person who thrives here:

Take ownership without being told to — sees a gap, a risk, or an unanswered email and closes it, rather than waiting for instructions.

Is entrepreneurial by temperament: comfortable in a small, early-stage company with limited structure, and energized rather than unsettled by that.

Is obsessive about detail — accurate minutes, tracked deadlines, nothing falling through the cracks across several projects running at once.

Communicates proactively: ask questions before a problem becomes urgent and gives our small team (and the Head of Public Policy) clear, unprompted status updates rather than waiting to be asked.

Is genuinely curious about AI policy, AI evaluation, and AI auditing, and wants to build a career in this field — this role is a real way in, not just an admin job attached to it.

Is based in the EU, comfortable working remotely with limited day-to-day oversight, and able to travel for…