CTO/Founding Engineer
Technical leadership · Equity-heavy compensation
Set technical direction, build software, and guide engineering delivery with the founder across Syntony’s AI evaluation and governance products.
Explore open roles in research leadership and engineering, along with fellowships and undergraduate internships.
Lead our research, guide technical development, or build our products. Each role page explains the responsibilities, working arrangements, and compensation terms.
Technical leadership · Equity-heavy compensation
Set technical direction, build software, and guide engineering delivery with the founder across Syntony’s AI evaluation and governance products.
Research leadership · Part-time or full-time
Guide Syntony’s research agenda, mentor fellows and affiliates, and oversee methods, evidence, and publication.
Paid contract · Product engineering
Build product workflows from data model to interface. Help people follow AI evaluation evidence, review findings, and record decisions.
Paid contract · Evaluation systems
Develop evaluation harnesses, structured traces, and replay tools that make adversarial results reproducible and mitigations testable.
Applications are open for our fellowships and undergraduate internship. Each program page explains the research focus, eligibility, and how to apply by email.
Applications open · Technical research
A defined technical research project for graduate students and people who have completed graduate study, focused on AI evaluation and governance.
Applications open · Independent research
An eight-month interdisciplinary fellowship exploring human rights, testimony and archival integrity, AI safety, and human security.
Applications open · Research & engineering
Research and engineering experience for undergraduate students interested in AI safety, evaluation, and governance. Scope, duration, and compensation are confirmed before acceptance.
Project-based adversarial evaluation
Bring specialist expertise in areas such as ML security, policy analysis, agent evaluation, or strategic risk.
Project-based governance and risk research
Collaborate on evaluation methods, governance design, policy analysis, or strategic risk research.
For opportunities not listed here
Send a note if no current opening fits but your experience is relevant to Syntony's work.