[Hiring] Head of AI Safety @Moonshot

Role Description

Moonshot is recruiting a Head of AI Safety to lead the delivery, development, and growth of our AI Safety portfolio. The role combines Moonshot's expertise in violence prevention, behavioural risk, and online harms with the emerging practice of evaluating and improving the safety of AI systems. The portfolio addresses harm categories including:

• Pathways to violence
• Extremism
• Child sexual exploitation, abuse and grooming (CSEA)
• Mental health and crisis
• Risks affecting children and teenagers

The Head of AI Safety will serve as Moonshot's primary applied AI safety counterpart for frontier AI companies, governments, and regulators. This is a hands-on position requiring the successful candidate to lead and participate directly in:

• Red teaming and adversarial evaluation
• Working in detail with evaluation methodologies, test scenarios, model responses, safety policies, and intervention frameworks

The role holds responsibility for:

• Client and partner relationships
• Project and staff management
• Methodological quality
• Business development

This is a remote position. Candidates must be based in Ontario, Canada, due to employment and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, online harms, or a closely related field such as violence prevention, safeguarding, or public health
• Curiosity about AI and the ability to build technical fluency quickly
• Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories such as violent extremism, CSEA, self-harm and crisis, or targeted violence
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, teams, budgets, partners, and clients
• Excellent written communication skills
• Comfort and demonstrated resilience working with highly sensitive or graphic content
• Strong judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity
• Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours where needed
• Highly trustworthy, with discretion and diplomacy
• Experience supporting business development, grant funding, or procurement
• Commitment to Moonshot's mission

Requirements

• Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada
• Will be required to undertake and pass a standard background check
• Relevant security clearance procedures per client needs

Benefits

• 25 days paid vacation leave, plus Statutory Holiday
• Flexible public holiday policy with the option to work statutory holidays in exchange for a day off at another time
• Group healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children (80% Co-Insurance)
• HSA is restricted to mental health practitioners only
• Dental & Vision Insurance (80% Co-Insurance)
• Life & LTD Disability Insurance
• 24/7 access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Program
• Generous maternity and paternity leave: 26 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid paternity leave
• All permanent employees are granted share options upon employment
• Salary: $115,000 - $140,000 CAD (depending on skills and experience)