Operations Generalist

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FAR.AI is looking for a proactive and resourceful Operations Generalist to keep our organization running seamlessly. In this role, you’ll be at the core of FAR.AI’s operations, taking on a diverse set of responsibilities across operations, people and culture, events, and more, helping to drive efficiency and support our mission. If you thrive on variety, love tackling new challenges, and want to make an impact in a mission-driven organization, we’d love to hear from you!

About Us

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring the safe development and deployment of frontier AI technologies. Our mission is to ensure AI systems are trustworthy and beneficial to society.

Since our inception in July 2022, we’ve grown quickly to 17 full-time employees, producing 27 influential academic papers, and established the leading AI Safety events for research and international cooperation. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times, Nature News and MIT Technology Review.

We drive practical change through red-teaming with frontier model developers and government institutes. Additionally, we help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio. We also operate FAR.Labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley housing 40 members, and support the community through targeted grants to technical researchers.

About FAR.Research

Our research team likes to move fast. We rapidly explore and scale up promising AI safety research directions, maintaining a diverse portfolio of projects rather than committing to a single path.

Our current focus areas include:

• Building a science of robustness (e.g. finding vulnerabilities in superhuman Go AIs)
• Finding more effective approaches to value alignment (e.g. training from language feedback)
• Advancing model evaluation techniques (e.g. inverse scaling and codebook features).

We put our research into practice through red-teaming engagements with frontier AI developers, and collaborations with government institutes.

Other FAR Projects

To build a flourishing field of AI safety research, we host targeted workshops and events, operate FAR.Labs, and provide grants to researchers focusing on priority areas. Our notable previous events include the:

• International Dialogue for AI Safety that brought together prominent scientists (including 2 Turing Award winners) from around the globe, culminating in a public statement calling for global action on AI safety research and governance.
• Semiannual Alignment Workshop with 150 researchers from academia, industry, and government to learn about the latest developments in AI safety and find collaborators. For more information on FAR.AI’s activities, please visit our website.

About the Role

As FAR.AI’s first Operations Generalist, you will play a crucial role in supporting our team across a wide range of operation functions, including HR, employee engagement and organizational processes. You’ll work closely with the COO and Business Operations Manager to ensure our organization runs smoothly and efficiently, tackling both day-to-day tasks and longer-term projects.

This is the perfect role for someone who loves variety, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is excited to contribute to FAR.AI’s mission.

Key responsibilities

General Operations:

• Plan and coordinate team events such as offsites, team-building activities, and social gatherings.
• Provide logistical and administrative support for events, including travel coordination for high-profile attendees.
• Oversee the management of company swag.
• Assist in the management and delivery of operations projects, driving process improvement and efficiency across company workflows.
• Support vendor and employee contract management, and with various compliance related tasks (including state and federal compliance).
• Ensure all HR operations (including OSHA), policies, and procedures are compliant with federal, state, and local regulations, including employment law and labor standards.
• Contribute to employee well-being initiatives that foster a positive work environment.
• Maintain the company handbook and staff policies.
• Provide day-to-day administrative support to the COO and Business Operations Manager as needed, including drafting communications, updating dashboards, preparing reports.

Recruitment & Onboarding:

• Lead the end-to-end recruitment process to build a diverse and strong candidate funnel. This includes job postings, candidate screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding.
• Optimize and continuously improve our existing hiring process to attract and retain top talent, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience.
• Facilitate a seamless onboarding and welcoming experience that sets new team members up for success.

About You

You’re someone who loves rolling up their sleeves to get things done. You’re excited to help build the operational backbone of a mission-driven organization and take pride in improving processes and systems.

Strongly preferred:

• Operational Excellence: You have 3-5 years of experience in operations or project management roles, with a proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects or initiatives at one time.
• People & Culture Experience: You’ve managed or played a substantial role in either company HR, recruitment, and/or onboarding processes. You know how to create a positive, inclusive, and people-centered work environment.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: You’re always thinking about how to improve processes and make things more efficient.

Nice to have:

• Experience in Fast-Paced Environments: You’ve worked in startups, nimble nonprofits, or high-growth teams before and can adapt to change quickly.
• Event & Logistics Coordination: You’ve organized events or managed travel logistics for teams, with a strong attention to detail.

Logistics

You will be an employee of FAR.AI, a 501(c)(3) research non-profit.

• Location: While we prefer in-person applicants based in Berkeley, we’re open to exceptional candidates who can work remotely.
• Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week).
• Compensation: $85,000 - $125,000 FTE / year depending on experience and location. We will also cover work-related travel and equipment expenses. Catered lunch and dinner are provided at our Berkeley office.

Application process: Our application process includes a screening call, a test task, and three interviews with our team. For some candidates, we may offer a short work trial to assess mutual fit. We expect filling out the initial application form will take less than 15 minutes.

Please apply! If you’re excited about this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply — even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification. We value diverse backgrounds and skills. If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact us at talent@far.ai.