Head of Biology, Red Team

Lead biology safety evaluations of frontier AI systems, assessing biological misuse risks and building scalable safety infrastructure.
- Design adversarial evaluations of LLMs for pathogen characterization, biosecurity bypass, and emerging biotechnology capabilities.
- Partner with ML engineers to translate biological expertise into evaluation datasets, classifiers, guardrails, and automated red-teaming systems.
- Build and mentor a team of biology experts while establishing rigorous evaluation standards and safety infrastructure.
- Requires PhD in microbiology, virology, synthetic biology, or related field with postdoctoral research experience.
- Requires deep understanding of biological misuse risks, dual-use research, and experience with AI safety evaluations or risk assessments.

Gray Swan is an AI security company that develops tools that automatically assess the risks of AI models.