[Hiring] AI Resilience Partner @EQL Tech

Role Description

EQL Tech is partnered with Convergent Research in the search for an outstanding AI Resilience Partner. This role is about building the missing institutions and technical infrastructure that make the world resilient to advanced AI.

What you’ll do:

• Create and fully own a growing portfolio of FROs and other scientific projects that advance AI resilience.
• Define a portfolio that spans:
  • Defensive biosecurity (pathogen-agnostic detection, next-generation PPE, rapid countermeasures)
  • Provably secure cyber-physical systems and formal verification
  • Epistemic infrastructure for a world flooded with AI-generated content
  • Independent evaluation and monitoring capacity
  • Compute governance
  • Economic modeling of the transition
  • Areas nobody has named yet
• Roadmap the AI resilience landscape to identify bottlenecks and keystone capabilities worth building organizations around.
• Source and diligence ideas for new projects and organizations and design funding calls in partnership with funders.
• Build founding teams and help recruit early hires.
• Coach founders on technical and organizational roadmaps, fundraising, and startup operations.
• Serve as a Director on multiple FRO boards, keeping teams on track against milestones.
• Represent Convergent externally, building high-trust relationships with philanthropic and public funders.
• Contribute to Convergent-wide initiatives like Founder Retreats and Residencies.

Qualifications

• Understand the AI landscape of 2026 in granular detail.
• Have a view on where the world is exposed and which exposures are tractable.
• Possess ideas or a credible plan for large-scale efforts to improve resilience.
• Can argue passionately for a thesis about philanthropic capital allocation.
• Technically fluent in frontier AI.
• Have a deep network in the field.
• Know how startups work, with experience in a startup, venture firm, or building something yourself.
• Have experience raising money, owning a budget, writing technical roadmaps, and hiring.
• Have assembled a group to accomplish a hard technical task successfully.
• Have experience around boards, governance, or nonprofit leadership.
• Communicate clearly and move fast.

Requirements

• It’s okay if you don’t meet every single criterion perfectly.
• If you've read this far and are already sketching the organization you'd build first, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

• A rare chance to build institutional architecture for frontier science alongside sharp professionals.
• Competitive salary, with a range of $200,000 - $350,000.
• Up to a 6% 401k match.
• Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance—majority of options fully covered for you and your dependents.
• Company-paid life insurance, AD&D, long- and short-term disability insurance, and voluntary supplemental insurance options.
• 19 holidays, including a full week off at the end of the year.
• 3 weeks PTO with tenure increases, separate allotments for sick and parental leave.
• Generous fertility benefits and childcare reimbursement.
• Education and professional development benefits.
• Wellness allowance for fitness and wellness activities.
• 3x/year offsite team retreats and additional opportunities to meet teammates in person.