Senior Technical Specialist, AI Risk Assessment

Responsibilities

• Develop techniques for discovering threat models and generating risk pathway analyses that capture societal and sociotechnical dimensions.
• Model multi-node risk transformation, amplification, and threshold effects propagating through social systems, with a focus on catastrophic and loss-of-control scenarios.
• Contribute to the design of robust technical governance frameworks and assessment methodologies for advanced AI risks.
• Provide strategic and tactical quality control for the team’s research, ensuring conceptual soundness and technical accuracy.
• Lead original research projects on comprehensive risk management for advanced AI systems, aligned with team objectives.
• Collaborate across CARMA teams and with UAE-based stakeholders to integrate risk assessment paradigms with operational, policy, and standards workstreams.
• Contribute to technical standards and best practices for evaluation, risk measurement, and risk thresholding of AI systems.
• Craft clear, persuasive communications for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including UAE government, industry, and research partners.

Requirements

• AI safety
• Risk modeling
• Systems thinking
• Causal modeling
• Research QA
• Technical writing
• Publication record
• Collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in complex systems theory, control theory, cybernetics, multi-scale modeling, or dynamical systems.
• Experience with systemic and sociotechnical modeling of risk propagation and emergent dynamics.
• Familiarity with Bayesian networks, causal inference, and semi-quantitative hypergraph approaches for risk analysis.
• Prior work at AI safety research organizations, technical labs, policy institutions, or adjacent high-risk domains.
• Experience designing or running quality assurance processes for technical research and frameworks.
• Understanding of international dynamics, power differentials in AI development, and implications for governance.
• Ability to balance consideration of both acute and aggregate AI risks and to model threshold effects and nonlinear dynamics.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience (USD range indicative: 140,000–220,000).
• Health and medical insurance coverage for UAE employees.
• Paid and annual leave consistent with UAE employment practices.
• Professional development and conference support.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements with occasional travel within the UAE and internationally.
• Support for visa or work-authorization where applicable for UAE-based hires.

About the Company

The Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) works to help society navigate complex and potentially catastrophic risks arising from increasingly powerful AI systems. CARMA grounds AI risk management in rigorous analysis, develops policy and technical frameworks addressing transformative AI, and advances durable safety approaches. This role will operate from CARMA's UAE office in Dubai and engage closely with regional stakeholders — candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the UAE and able to work under UAE employment or contracting terms. CARMA is committed to inclusive hiring and equal opportunity.