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ABOUT CAMBRIDGE BOSTON ALIGNMENT INITIATIVE The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative http://cbai.ai (CBAI) is a nonprofit research organization working to advance research and education directed towards ensuring that society navigates a safe and beneficial transition to advanced AI systems. Our work takes the form of producing original research efforts and accelerating AI safety research through fellowship programs. Our inaugural summer fellowship cohort has already published a spotlight paper at the Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at NeurIPS, accepted papers at ICLR, and some of our fellows have joined Goodfire and Redwood Research. After a successful 2025 launch, we're rapidly scaling in 2026. We will host multiple fellowship cycles (Fall, Spring, and Summer), double the fellowship cohort, and quadruple our team. Refer us candidates https://airtable.com/app4zWdbexhJgyBwp/pagLKlt1Zh0RV163y/form, and receive $5,000 if we hire them. THE ROLE You'll serve as the founding organizer of CBAI's AIxBio Research Fellowship, a new program at the intersection of AI and biosecurity. You'll own the strategic and operational direction of the AIxBio program, manage the AIxBio Research Managers, lead mentor recruitment and relationships, and build the AIxBio fellowship into a durable, high-impact research environment in Cambridge. You'll work closely with CBAI's Director of Programs and organizational leadership to ensure the AIxBio program grows in a way that's coherent with CBAI's broader mission and infrastructure, as well as in alignment with the CBAI AI safety fellowship program. PROGRAM STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT (0.7 FTE) - Own the strategic vision and continuous improvement of the AIxBio Research Fellowship across cycles - Design the program end-to-end, from the fellow selection process to incorporating inputs from the stakeholders into the program design - Design program structures — mentor matching, fellow selection criteria, research goal frameworks, cohort programming — in collaboration with CBAI's Research Program Associate and research managers - Develop evaluation frameworks to assess fellow outcomes and program effectiveness - Identify and pursue opportunities to deepen CBAI's presence in the Cambridge biosecurity research ecosystem - Collaborate with CBAI program leadership to ensure cross-program coherence and resource alignment - Manage AIxBio Research Managers, providing guidance, feedback, and support STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT (0.3 FTE) - Lead mentor recruitment: identify, outreach to, and onboard biosecurity and AI researchers as mentors - Maintain strong ongoing relationships with mentors, SecureBio, Coefficient Giving, and other program partners - Serve as the primary point of contact for mentors throughout the fellowship cycle, in coordination with research managers ABOUT YOU Deep familiarity with AI x biosecurity. You have meaningful experience in or at the intersection of biosecurity and AI — whether through research, policy, field-building, or program leadership. You can engage credibly with mentors and fellows working on capability evaluations, dual-use research governance, or adjacent agendas. A builder's orientation. You're excited by the challenge of launching something new. You can operate with ambiguity, make good decisions with incomplete information, and build systems that outlast your direct involvement. Strong relationship builder. Mentor recruitment and retention is central to this role. You know how to build trust with senior researchers and institutional partners, and you understand what makes a collaboration feel worthwhile to a busy academic or industry expert. Strategic and operational range. You can think at the level of program design and organizational strategy while also rolling up your sleeves when needed. You're not precious about the distinction. Excellent communicator. You write clearly, present compellingly, and give feedback that moves thin