Field Strategist

Overview

Atlas Computing is seeking a cohort of Field Strategists to scope multiple potential interventions simultaneously and hand them off. This role works closely with our Founders, who will scope interventions they would like to lead themselves. The initial focus will likely be on cybersecurity, datacenter security, and epistemic security.

Responsibilities

• Create clear write-ups for interventions, including:
  • Why advances in AI capabilities pose a specific risk to society
  • A proposed intervention and its feasibility
  • The best people to advise and steer the intervention
  • Decision-makers who would change their behavior due to the intervention
  • Potential funders and their decision criteria
  • The skills and experience needed for the founder
• Pitch potential founders to the organization and introduce one to potential funders
• Work with a recruiter to pitch potential founders for that organization

Requirements

• Expertise in navigating and/or modifying complex systems
• Generalist with quick understanding of nuances in various topics, including ML architecture, export control laws, and ideological differences within the AI community
• Meaningful experience in cybersecurity, cybersecurity strategy, epistemic security, strategic technological or product planning, technology roadmapping, or multi-year strategic planning
• A founder mindset with a high degree of ownership over outcomes and the ability to personally make and externally drive progress with little oversight
• Experience coordinating and aligning stakeholders to work toward a common goal
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Comfort with uncertainty and interest in shaping the company's culture

Qualifications

• Strong ability to interview experts and synthesize across domains
• Comfort forming and revising hypotheses quickly
• Strong creative problem-solving skills, love finding pareto improvements to the obvious options
• Capability to reason about AI trajectory, safety, and future-state technologies

Bonus Points

• Strong conviction that AI is going to reshape the face of civilization fairly soon
• Deep networks in cybersecurity, biosecurity, or epistemic security
• Background in product or taking things from zero to one: organizational formation, paired with domain depth
• Experience acting as a COO-type integrator across complex, multi-expert efforts
• Thriving in a high-trust, low-structure environment
• Loving to talk to people across multiple domains about concrete actions that can address important problems
• Knowing how to solve problems with money, but also knowing how to operate on a tight budget
• Seriously considering starting your own company, but the opportunity or push hasn’t come up yet
• Always recommending books, models, and frameworks
• Deeply committed to improving the human condition with technology

What We Offer

• $150,000 - $250,000 a year
• More senior candidates may be eligible for higher than this maximum salary
• Remote, with many calls in Pacific Time
• Preference for candidates based in the US who are eligible for a security clearance
• Up to 20% travel

How We Hire

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.