Technical Project Manager; Red Team

Position: Technical Project Manager (Red Team)
Location: Berkeley Springs

FAR.AI is hiring a Technical Project Manager to be the delivery backbone of one of the world's most impactful frontier AI red-teaming programs. You will own the delivery of some of our highest-stakes engagements with governments and frontier AI companies, support technical engagements/outcomes, assist our red-team recruiting, and be the operational glue that lets our red-team succeed.

About FAR.AI

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, published 40+ academic papers, and convened leading AI safety events. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times, Nature News and MIT Technology Review. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI and independent evaluations for governments including the EU AI Office.

We help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley housing 40 members; and supporting the community through targeted grants to technical researchers.

About Red-Teaming

FAR.AI's red team is building toward a simple outcome: materially raising the bar for safety and security of the most widely deployed and capable AI systems in the world. We intend to be the tip of the spear in AI safety: the team that consistently finds the failures others miss, resulting in real mitigations, and setting the standard that labs and governments converge on.

We also leverage our in-depth understanding of weaknesses in frontier models to advise frontier developers on mitigations, to guide our own research and grant-making for improving model security, and to inform the public of key AI risks.

We are already one of the leading independent red-teaming organizations. Our work has helped most Western frontier model developers improve safeguards through pre- and post-deployment testing e.g., we have directly influenced safeguards at major frontier developers like OpenAI and Anthropic. Our work is also assisting high-leverage government efforts e.g., leading a consortium building CBRN evaluations for the European Commission/EU AI Office, and collaborating with the UK AI Security Institute.

In 2026, we are scaling from a strong team with standout wins into a new level of impact for any AI red team globally:

• Red-teaming all major frontier model releases (closed and open-weight) within days/weeks of release;
• Expanding strategic engagements with governments and conducting pre-deployment testing with most frontier labs;
• Deepening our testing of key risk areas like CBRN, cyber, and agents, and exploring new ones like AI control and alignment;
• Building tools, agents, and insights that raise the global standard for red-teaming;

About the Role

This is a force-multiplier role. You will report to Edward Yee (Head of Growth & Strategy, who also leads the red-team), dotted line to Kellin Pelrine (co-leading and technical lead for the red-team). You will work alongside our red-teamers, researchers, and the rest of the team to turn a fast-growing team and portfolio of engagements into a reliable, high-velocity delivery team.

The red-team has ambitious goals and is evolving rapidly, and we expect this role to evolve to fit the priorities of the team. Our team is scaling from 2 to 15+ this year, with candidate profiles that require active sourcing and careful shepherding in order to hire the very best talent. Our engagement portfolio across frontier labs and governments is already complex and will grow further.

You will be moderately technical - comfortable enough with red-teaming substance to read a report, engage credibly with technical colleagues, do technical writing/reviews, and understand what we are hiring for. You do not need to jailbreak models yourself, but you should be able to meet our red-teamers on their terms. Our best guess for the 2026 shape:

• Engagement delivery (~35%). Own the delivery of our largest multi-party engagement. Take delivery ownership of other engagements as they come in such as frontier-model red teaming engagements and government RFPs. Run the request for proposals (RFP) and opportunity pipeline - tracking live opportunities, scoping new engagements, drafting proposals, and supporting contract negotiations. Program-manage new initiatives as they land, such as grant- making.
• Red-team recruiting (~30%). Own the red-team hiring pipeline end-to-end. Run daily pipeline management (candidate correspondence, scheduling, early advance/reject calls). Headhunt and source top talent, working with Kellin and Edward to refine target lists and reach passive candidates. Identify bottlenecks…