Parallax
Founding Operations Manager
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About Parallax
Parallax is a new UK-based non-profit research organisation developing open methods and infrastructure for white-box auditing of frontier AI systems. Our mission is to make evidence about models’ internal beliefs, goals, and plans a core component of AI evaluations, allowing evaluators to identify, explain, and predict safety-relevant failures more reliably.
We publish our findings, release our methods and infrastructure, and aim to make scientific contributions that remain useful as agentic capabilities of frontier models keep increasing. You can read more about our mission, strategy, and team on our About page.
About the Role
We are recruiting an Operations Manager to lead the operational foundations of Parallax. As an early member of a fast-moving, highly collaborative team, you will work closely with the founders to translate our priorities into reliable processes and sound administrative, legal, and financial decisions. You will also play a fundamental role in designing the processes that will drive Parallax’s success as it scales into a leading European actor in this space.
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You will work directly with our co-founders:
- Mario Giulianelli, our Scientific Director, is an Associate Professor at UCL who was previously a Senior Researcher at the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI).
- Gabriele Sarti, our Technical Director, was a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University and the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF).
Qualities of a Strong Candidate
We expect strong candidates to demonstrate most of the following:
- A strong sense of ownership, initiative, and reliability, with an honest desire to make a concrete impact on pressing issues.
- 2+ years in operations-adjacent roles involving broad organisational responsibility, with experience in leading and delivering projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication, with clear and compelling writing, low ego, and openness to feedback.
- Comfort working in an early-stage environment where priorities and duties may change rapidly, and soundness of judgment on when to take initiative and when to seek help.
- A service-oriented approach: you enjoy removing obstacles and enabling other people to do excellent work, and regularly track and address pending issues.
- Confidence working with budgets, contracts, and administrative systems, and high integrity when handling confidential financial or personnel information.
- Professional fluency in English.
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We care more about evidence of good judgment and execution than about a particular degree or career path. If the role interests you but you do not meet every criterion, we still encourage you to apply.
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See the full information relative to this role on our website: https://parallx.ai/careers/founding-operations-manager.html
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