Safe Superintelligence: Our Singular Focus

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. At Safe Superintelligence Inc., we are the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, established with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap because it is our sole focus. This unwavering dedication defines us. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI, insulating our critical work on safety, security, and progress from the distractions of management overhead, product cycles, or short-term commercial pressures.

Our Mission and Approach: Safety and Capabilities in Tandem

We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, viewing them not as separate pursuits but as intertwined technical problems demanding revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. This includes harnessing the potential of quantum computing alongside advanced AI to accelerate progress responsibly.

Our plan is to advance capabilities as rapidly as possible, leveraging classical and quantum techniques, while rigorously ensuring that our safety measures always remain ahead. This integrated, forward-looking approach allows us to scale in peace, confident in the robustness of our safety frameworks even as capabilities surge.

Join Our Team: The Forefront of SSI

Safe Superintelligence Inc. is a Delaware company located in Silicon Valley—an epicenter chosen for its deep pool of world-class technical talent. We are assembling a lean, focused, cracked team comprising the world’s best engineers and researchers, dedicated exclusively to the singular challenge of SSI.

If the prospect of focusing solely on solving the most important technical challenge of our age—integrating AI and quantum frontiers to build safe superintelligence—resonates with you, we offer an unparalleled opportunity to do your life’s work.

Together at SSI, we are not merely anticipating the future; we are actively engineering a safer, more ethical, and profoundly beneficial tomorrow for everyone.

Our Culture and Values

Singular Focus: Every decision, every project, every hire is measured against our sole mission: the safe realization of superintelligence.

Integrated Safety & Ethics: Safety and ethics are not add-ons; they are fundamental components woven into the fabric of our research, engineering, quantum explorations, and impact assessments from day one.

Radical Collaboration: Breakthroughs emerge from the intersection of diverse, multidisciplinary minds—AI researchers, quantum physicists, engineers, ethicists—working in tight collaboration. Your voice is crucial.

Relentless Curiosity & Rigor: We foster bold experimentation, continuous learning, and disciplined pursuit of new frontiers in both AI and quantum domains, always grounded in scientific and engineering rigor.

Pioneering Responsibility: We embrace the profound responsibility of our mission, striving to create solutions that benefit humanity globally and ensuring safety leads capability.

Why Join SSI?

Define the Frontier: Work on the most advanced, uncharted challenges at the intersection of AI, quantum computing, and safety. Your work won’t just follow the field; it will define it.

Accelerated Growth: Immerse yourself in a unique learning environment. Expand your expertise through hands-on projects, cross-disciplinary collaboration, workshops, conferences, and mentorship from pioneers.

Unparalleled Impact: Contribute directly to the development of potentially the most impactful technology in history. Your work aims to shape AI for generations, ensuring its benefits are realized safely.

Ethics in Action: Collaborate daily with ethicists, safety experts, and policy specialists to ensure every innovation, whether classical or quantum-powered, aligns fundamentally with human values and safety imperatives.

Current Opportunities: Building the Future of Intelligence

We are hiring exceptional individuals across multiple disciplines. Most roles offer flexibility for remote or office-based work. If you are driven by the challenge of safe superintelligence, we invite you to apply. Every role contributes directly to our singular mission.

AI, Quantum & Research Roles

• AI Research Scientist (Safety & Capabilities): Conduct foundational research at the cutting edge of AI safety, alignment, and capabilities, publishing impactful findings.
• Machine Learning Engineer (Safe Systems): Design, build, and optimize scalable ML models and systems with safety and robustness as primary constraints.
• Quantum Computing Researcher (AI Integration): Explore and implement quantum algorithms to enhance AI capabilities (e.g., optimization, simulation) and develop novel quantum approaches to AI safety and verification.
• Theoretical Physicist (Quantum AI): Investigate the fundamental links between quantum mechanics and intelligence, seeking theoretical breakthroughs relevant to SSI.

Engineering & Infrastructure Roles

• Senior Software Engineer - Reliability (SRE - AI/Quantum Systems): Build, scale, and maintain ultra-reliable infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference, including classical and emerging quantum hardware interfaces.
• AI & Quantum Systems Architect: Design robust, scalable, and secure architectures integrating classical high-performance computing with quantum processing units for next-generation AI.
• Distributed Systems Engineer (Scalability): Focus on designing, building, and optimizing the large-scale distributed systems required to train and serve massive AI models efficiently and reliably.
• Data Engineer (High-Integrity Systems): Create and manage secure, high-quality data pipelines essential for training and validating safe AI models.
• Security Engineer (AI & Quantum Threats): Develop and implement advanced security protocols to safeguard models, data, algorithms, and infrastructure against current and future threats, including those potentially posed by quantum adversaries.
• Quantum Software Developer: Implement, test, and optimize quantum algorithms and software libraries for execution on various quantum platforms, focusing on AI applications.
• Quantum Hardware Integration Engineer: Bridge the gap between quantum hardware systems and our AI research pipelines, ensuring seamless performance, calibration, and safety monitoring.

Safety, Ethics & Alignment Roles

• Head of AI Safety and Alignment (Classical & Quantum): Lead the overarching strategy for ensuring superintelligence aligns with human values, considering challenges and opportunities presented by both classical and quantum AI paradigms.
• AI Safety Engineer (Verification & Validation): Develop and implement rigorous testing, verification, and validation protocols to detect and mitigate unintended behaviors or safety failures in complex AI systems.
• Formal Methods Researcher (Safety Assurance): Apply mathematical techniques and formal verification tools to rigorously prove properties of AI systems, contributing to high-assurance safety guarantees.
• Ethics & Society Specialist (AI & Quantum): Shape ethical guidelines, conduct impact assessments, and integrate responsible innovation principles, specifically addressing the unique societal implications of advanced AI and quantum technologies.
• Risk Assessment Analyst (Emergent Systems): Identify, analyze, and devise mitigation strategies for risks associated with rapidly advancing AI capabilities and quantum integration.
• AI Policy & Governance Lead: Engage with policymakers and the global community to help shape a regulatory and governance landscape that prioritizes global safety and responsible SSI development.

Product & Design Roles

• UX/UI Designer (Complex AI Systems): Design intuitive and effective interfaces for interacting with and monitoring advanced AI systems, ensuring clarity and control.
• Product Manager (Safe AI Platforms): Define product roadmaps for AI tools and platforms, balancing cutting-edge capabilities with non-negotiable safety requirements.
• Developer Advocate (AI Platforms): Engage with internal research teams and future external partners to champion and support the use of SSI’s AI development platforms and tools.

Operations & Support Roles

• Talent Acquisition Lead (Specialized Tech): Attract, recruit, and hire world-class talent in highly specialized fields like AI safety, ML, and quantum computing.
• People Operations Specialist: Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and supportive internal culture focused on the mission.
• Research Operations Manager: Streamline research processes, manage resources, and support the unique operational needs of a fast-paced, mission-driven R&D environment.
• Technical Writer (AI & Quantum Concepts): Translate highly complex AI, safety, and quantum computing concepts into clear, accurate documentation for diverse audiences.

Employee Benefits

• Mission-Driven Equity: Significant equity grants with refreshers, reflecting your contribution to achieving our singular goal.
• Competitive Compensation: Top-tier salary packages designed to attract and retain the best minds in the world.
• Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium health, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs and stipends.
• Cutting-Edge Resources: Access to state-of-the-art computing infrastructure (classical and quantum) and tools.
• Flexible & Focused Time Off: Unlimited PTO with a recommended minimum, supporting deep work and rejuvenation.
• Continuous Advancement: Unrivaled opportunities for learning through workshops, conferences, internal seminars, and collaboration across disciplines.
• Pioneering Culture: An intellectually stimulating, supportive environment that values rigor, creativity, open debate, and unwavering focus on the mission.

How to Apply

Ready to make history in AI development? Apply here or send your resume and cover letter (PDF format preferred) to [email protected]. In your cover letter, please share:

• Why you’re passionate about safe superintelligence
• How your experience aligns with our singular mission
• The unique perspective you will bring to our team

Back Our Mission

We operate at the absolute frontier, where AI meets quantum, and safety is paramount. To achieve this vision, we need a dedicated community to back our mission and support us. Expect intellectually demanding challenges, rigorous debate, and open exploration of ethics and alignment. By joining our efforts, potentially through owning our digital asset, you contribute directly to the profound satisfaction of building a future where superintelligence benefits all humanity, safely.

Join SSI—where focus, rigor, and responsibility converge to build the future of intelligence.