Technical teamVolunteer role
Facilitator, Technical AI Safety
Facilitate technical discussions on alignment, evals and mechanistic interpretability.
- 5 to 8Hours a week
- Cohort-basedFormat
- RemoteBased in India
- TechnicalTeam
The role
You run the technical sessions for our cohorts. The curriculum is the BlueDot Technical AI Safety course: training safer models, evaluations, interpretability and minimising harm. Your job is to guide participants through it. Not lecture. Facilitate.
What you will do
- Run weekly cohort sessions and structured discussions
- Guide discussion across alignment, evals, interpretability and harm reduction
- Track who is research-ready and hand them on to the research mentor
- Bring Indian context into every session: India’s AI stack, the local policy landscape, Indian labs
What we look for
- Completed BlueDot Technical AI Safety or an equivalent (ARENA, ERA, MATS prep)
- Familiar with the BlueDot Technical AI Safety curriculum
- Comfortable running structured discussion: facilitating, not lecturing
- Working knowledge of the Indian AI research and development landscape
- 5 to 8 hours a week per cohort
Recommended background: Background in ML engineering, PyTorch or mathematical foundations, or a graduate of an AI safety fellowship.
What you get
A letter of recommendation for ERA, MATS, SPAR, BlueDot and Pivotal applications
A co‑facilitator credit
A certificate of contribution
Priority for paid roles when funding arrives
How selection works
- 1
Application form
Your background, any AI safety courses or projects, and your weekly time, in the form below.
- 2
Work test
A short, practical task for your role, done in your own time, so we can see how you work.
- 3
Interview
A conversation with our core team about fit, cohort logistics, mentorship support and onboarding.
Apply for this role
Two short steps, for this role only.
About the role
Your time, and your experience for this role.
A reading group, seminar or class. How did you get people talking, rather than lecture?
About you
Your background, and what you have done in AI safety.
Whichever shows your work best.
Study, work, and the tools you use.
BlueDot, reading groups, research, posts. Leave it empty if none yet.
Application received, there.
Your application for Facilitator, Technical AI Safety is in. A confirmation is on its way to your email.
- 01We read itEvery application, by our core team.
- 02A work testA short task for your role, in your own time.
- 03An interviewA conversation about fit and onboarding.
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