Convergent Research is a focused research organization for conducting non-profit science projects and research. Backed by Protocol Labs.
About the role
Partners at Convergent are like senior partners at a venture incubator. You'll create and fully own a growing portfolio of FROs and other scientific projects that advance AI resilience — society's capacity to capture AI's benefits while withstanding its risks.
What they're looking for
- You understand the AI landscape of 2026 in granular detail: who is building what, why, and on what timeline
- More importantly, you have a view on where that leaves the rest of the world exposed, and which of those exposures are tractable and through what clever ideas and technical methods they might be patchable, and who are the people developing those ideas
- You have ideas, or a credible plan to find ideas, for large-scale efforts that would measurably improve how the world weathers this transition
- You can argue passionately for a thesis about where philanthropic capital should go, and then argue the other side just as well
- You're technically fluent in frontier AI, enough to tell a real bottleneck from a fashionable one
- You have a deep network in the field and people pick up when you call
More about this role
Convergent Research is a nonprofit science studio best known for pioneering the Focused Research Organization (FRO) : purpose-built, mission-driven orgs designed to solve technological bottlenecks, unlock whole new fields, and lead to scaled revolutions. We’ve proven our model works by building over 14 high-impact scientific organizations spanning AI, biotech, mathematics, climate science, and more.
AI capability is compounding faster than the world's ability to absorb it. Other technologies got decades to sort out their safety codes, their testing regimes, and the institutions that enforce them. We don't have decades. The defenses have to be built while the technology is still moving, and there's no budget line anywhere that says build the defenses now.
That's the gap this role exists to close. Not "how do we build another AI company" - plenty of people are doing that. This role is about building the missing institutions and technical infrastructure that make the world resilient to advanced AI: the defensive capabilities that won't be built by a startup, won't fit inside an academic lab, and are too important to leave to chance.
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