Strategic Risk Analyst, Behavioral & Psychological Risk

TL;DR

Strategic Risk Analyst, Behavioral & Psychological Risk (AI Safety): Analyze how users interact with AI in high-risk contexts like self-harm, manipulation, and coercion, translating behavioral insights into decision-ready risk assessments and mitigation strategies. Focus on developing risk frameworks, identifying emerging trends, and evaluating mitigation effectiveness to inform product, safety, and policy decisions.

Location: San Francisco

Salary: $288K – $320K + equity

Company

AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose AI benefits humanity through safe products.

What you will do

• Develop insights into AI usage in high-risk situations like self-harm, suicidal ideation, substance escalation, and violence threats, identifying patterns and trends.
• Synthesize behavioral, psychological, and intelligence signals into narratives on user needs, system dynamics, and risks.
• Produce decision-ready briefs, assessments, frameworks, taxonomies, and indicators for product, safety, and policy guidance.
• Identify early indicators of issues, prioritize mitigations, and assess their effectiveness using behavioral evidence.
• Contribute behavioral perspective to incident reviews, root cause analysis, and prevention.
• Bridge research and operations by translating clinical literature into practical safeguards and decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years in forensic, clinical, trust & safety, or applied academic settings assessing risks of violence, self-harm, or addiction, with strong mixed-methods research skills.
• Familiarity with AI systems, language models, or human-AI interactions; interest in AI safety and trust & safety a plus.
• Ability to translate human behavior into structured intelligence, connecting cases to system-level patterns.
• Experience with qualitative/quantitative inputs, casework, data, literature, and metrics.
• Experience designing risk frameworks, taxonomies, or evaluation methods.
• Clear communication of complex insights into actionable recommendations; thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• Background checks in accordance with applicable law, considering qualified applicants with records per local ordinances (San Francisco, Los Angeles, California).