NLEducation Lead, Technical and Repository Owner
Safe AI NetherlandsNetherlandsGlobal catastrophic risksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineering
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Why this is on the board
In the Netherlands relatively few people work on AI safety, the research into how to keep powerful AI systems safe and controllable. This role helps shape how new researchers learn the field: you design the courses, set the technical bar for their code and decide which projects go on to grant funding or supervision after twelve weeks, so your judgement carries through into everything each new cohort produces.
About the role
Lead technical AI safety education, manage a shared code repository, and evaluate project quality for an incubation pipeline. - Plan and run Technical AI Safety course iterations covering LLMs, RL, evaluation, agents, cybersecurity, and biorisk modules. - Own SAIN Utrecht's repository: define standards, review pull requests, maintain testing, and ensure reproducibility of benchmarks and demos. - Technically supervise Forge proposals and 12-week incubation projects; approve progression to Rese…
Requirements
| Language | English is enough |
|---|---|
| Work authorisation | Unclear |
| Screening | Not mentioned |
| Where you work | On site in the Netherlands · Netherlands |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated |
| Posted | 18 September 2026 |
| Closes | No closing date given |
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