About Resolution

Resolution does research on how to align artificial superintelligence (ASI). ASI may be developed in the next few years, but it is unclear whether alignment is on track to be ready in the same timeframe. We aim at higher a priori confidence in aligned outcomes by pursuing a portfolio of theory and empirics bets, any one of which — if it succeeds — would meaningfully advance the field. We invest heavily in research automation to accelerate progress, and we believe that stronger alignment theory unlocks higher automation: more principled approaches give us better filters for which directions of automated research are promising.

Resolution was founded in May 2026 by researchers from UK AISI’s Alignment Team, who ran the £30m Alignment Project, and Timaeus, who pioneered applying singular learning theory to alignment.

For more information, see our announcement.

Operations at Resolution

Humanity likely has a few years left to solve alignment, and Resolution has just been founded. We’re scaling from scratch to 60+ staff in six months, working across multiple research areas and countries.

To pull that off, we're building an operations team that's every bit as strong as our research team — people who treat operations as a craft and want to do the best work of their careers. Joining now is a unique opportunity to set Resolution’s systems, culture, and strategy.

Scaling an alignment organization in the foothills of an intelligence explosion creates novel problems. A few you might solve:

• Automation. How do we design an organization to prepare for gradually increasing automation? When are human taste and verification key, and when should we get out of the way?

• Federation. Resolution is federated: research directors have wide autonomy over their own areas. What decisions should be made centrally? How should independent teams share ideas while preserving their own culture? What’s our bar for launching a new area?

• Capital allocation. As research is gradually handed off to AIs, how we spend on compute becomes one of our key strategic calls. How should a portfolio of bets, any of which might fail, divide a limited compute budget? How much should we spend now rather than waiting for more capable models? How do we keep unspent funds working in the meantime?

Operators at Resolution will work across 1-2 focus areas, and will also notice and solve problems outside of their official scope. Whatever your focus, the aim is for you to become genuinely world-class at it. As the organisation grows and AI capabilities advance, exact responsibilities will change over time.

We’re hiring for a variety of roles across research operations, business operations, and more—find yours below.

Research Operations

You'll collaborate with our researchers — across areas like scalable oversight, learning theory, personas, agent foundations — to get excellent research shipped to where it matters. A great research operator multiplies the output of entire research teams, autonomously leading major projects and skilfully unblocking day-to-day operational problems.

Example responsibilities:

• Partner with Research Program Leads on team strategy. Define goals, build and structure teams, decide what to prioritize.

• Build and run our research review processes: seminars, lightning talks, leadership review, and publication approval.

• Research communications: work with researchers to turn technical results into blog posts and announcements.

• Run research events: workshops, talks, etc., and help with our presence at conferences.

• Maintain relationships with frontier companies, external research collaborators, and potential hires.

• Grow our research teams. Work across Research and Recruiting on how we should expand, who to hire, and how to assess them.

• Design, pitch and run new projects like grantmaking, a fellowship, or visiting researcher program.

Chief of Staff

You'll work directly with our Chief Scientist, who has built teams at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and UK AISI, and who treats operations as a craft central to our organization. Your core challenge is to make sure the Chief Scientist — and Resolution's leadership more broadly — spend their time and attention on the highest-leverage work. As you build context, you’ll become one of the most trusted staff in the organization, and play a role in most major decisions.

Example responsibilities:

• Thought partner. Serve as a trusted advisor, holding strategic views on research, organisational design, and policy, pushing back on the Chief Scientist when you disagree.

• Prioritise the Chief Scientist’s time over quarters, weeks, and days. That ranges from setting high-level priorities to executing concrete tasks, like triaging requests from funders, potential collaborators, or policymakers.

• Spot and solve organisational-level problems, like how 1-1s are run, how research programs interact, or what’s blocking faster automation.

• Draft, edit, and publish on the Chief Scientist's behalf: external blog posts, personalised outreach, or internal decision memos.

• Grow the executive office over time. We're running closed rounds for a CEO, COO, and CTO. You'd help onboard them and build the structure they need — including hiring additional Chiefs of Staff or Executive Assistants as needed — and grow your own remit alongside the team.

Finance

As research is automated further, the binding constraint to alignment progress shifts from labor to compute. Capital allocation then becomes one of Resolution’s key strategic questions. You’ll start by making sure we’re nailing the finance fundamentals:

• We’re compliant with our obligations to grantmakers and jurisdictions we operate in. That includes preparing for and conducting annual audits, and preparing budgets for fundraising.

• Staff can easily purchase what they need to do their job: tools, equipment, travel etc.

• We’re secure from external attacks or fraud because of well-designed financial systems, policies, and controls.

Then, you’ll build out a finance function fit for the intelligence explosion:

• Forecast and recommend spending under different scenarios. How will our spending change if the price of compute spikes? If ASI might be months away, should we spend down all our capital? Will increases in frontier company valuation allow us to raise orders of magnitude more funding?

• Creatively secure compute. Partner with our engineering team on when to buy vs. rent, lock in capacity ahead of scarcity, and source discounted compute.

• Asset management. We’d like our unspent funds to be appreciating, rather than sitting idle. Nonprofits can receive and hold stock donations, as well as cash—when should we prefer that?

Recruiting

Resolution is scaling quickly, and has a world-class talent bar. You’ll make sure we can identify, attract, and close excellent candidates quickly.

Example responsibilities:

• Source and pitch excellent candidates, either directly or via the hiring manager.

• Run a fast, accurate assessment process. Schedule interviews, coordinate grading of work tests (including grading some yourself), make decisions on initial applications, and keep candidates updated throughout the process. Find ways to evaluate candidates, not their AIs, while still testing for automation skills.

• Close offers quickly and with a high success rate.

• Design new systems and approaches. Build an informed view on what separates good hiring from great, and design the systems, sourcing strategies, and assessments.

People

You'll build the people function from scratch as Resolution goes from a handful of staff to 60+ in six months, across several countries. Your job is to make sure everyone who joins is supported, informed, and motivated from day one.

Example responsibilities:

• Develop and implement systems to run visas, payroll, benefits, and onboarding.

• Build the team's culture. Run all-hands meetings, retreats, and socials that keep a fast-growing team kind, thoughtful, and impact-motivated. Make automating your work away feel exciting, rather than threatening. Resolve conflicts skillfully.

• Design and implement internal policies like our salary policy, benefits, and performance review.

• Ensure compliance with employment law across all jurisdictions we operate in, working with experienced HR contractors if needed. This includes employment practices, severances, visas, and HR incidents.

Also hiring

Other areas which are essential to Resolution’s work, but might not constitute a full focus area initially.

• Managers to lead one or more focus areas end-to-end: set strategy, hire and lead a small team, and deliver the outcomes above.

• Legal operations. Resolution’s point of contact on legal questions including employment law, IP, and nonprofit compliance.

• IT operations. Manage devices, procure software, own our organisational tech stack.

• Office management. Make our physical space somewhere staff are delighted to do their best work.

Who may be a good fit

You might be a great fit for the Operations Team if you have most of these:

• Operational track record. You have a history of processes, projects, or programs which work much better because of you. You can structure ambiguous problems, manage lots of tasks concurrently, and rarely drop balls.

• Entrepreneurial mindset. You like to move quickly towards ambitious, novel goals. You notice problems outside your remit and fix them anyway. You're comfortable operating without a perfect playbook and can adapt when plans change.

• Clear, concise communication. You distill complex ideas verbally and in writing, whether that's in a Slack message, decision memo, or team meeting. You reason transparently.

• Drive to simplify. You’ve used user guides, templates, no-code automations, software engineering, or AI to make complex processes run smoothly. You enjoy reducing the marginal cost of work, and building great user experiences.

• Desire to learn. You’re curious, and eager to expand your knowledge and skills. You ask questions, and flag when you’re unsure. You actively ask for feedback and use it to improve.

• Motivation for ASI alignment. You understand why Resolution exists and are deeply motivated by our mission. You're happy to be flexible and pitch in wherever you're most useful.

You might thrive in one or more focus areas if you have most of the following traits.

Research Operations

• Program strategy. You can take a loosely scoped question about how a research program should be built — when to hire versus automate, how separate programs fit together, when to invest in field-building rather than direct work — figure out what matters, and make a well-reasoned recommendation.

• Alignment research context. You could read most of our papers, explain the high-level idea, and say why it matters for alignment. You have a broad knowledge of the alignment ecosystem. You don’t need to be a researcher yourself.

• Thoughtful views on research culture. You think carefully about how research teams work — how to borrow evaluation, goal-setting, and meeting structures from other contexts and adapt them to ours. Ideally you've run research events or programs, especially in AI safety.

• Technical communication skills. You can turn a complex research result into an accessible technical blog post, and explain what makes Resolution's approach distinctive to a potential research hire.

This role probably isn’t for you if you see yourself as a researcher long-term. You’ll grow a lot in this role, but it’s not a stepping stone to research.

Chief of Staff

• Strategic thinking and strong judgement. You form strong views on new research, operational, or strategic problems, and you know when to defer. You're clear about how confident you are in a claim, and thoughtful about weighing different kinds of evidence.

• Interpersonally strong. You build good working relationships with different types of people, can tailor a message to your audience, and handle difficult conversations with care and courage. Colleagues feel supported around you, and trust you with sensitive topics.

Finance

• Attention to detail, both qualitative and quantitative. You can understand details of legal requirements, and manage complex data without errors slipping through.

• Engineering mindset. You've streamlined processes using tools like Airtable or Python. You don't need full-time software engineering experience.

• Scenario-modelling skills. You can take a messy, open-ended question, turn it into a clean model with explicit assumptions, stress-test it, and derive a recommendation. You're interested in the financial and economic implications of powerful AI.

• Bonus: finance knowledge, especially about US nonprofits. We work closely with an expert accountant contractor, and trust you to pick up what you need, so this is not strictly necessary.

Recruiting

• Personable: You quickly build rapport with different types of people, and can make a compelling pitch without being pushy.

• Good judgment about people. You have calibrated, nuanced views about candidates’ strengths, weaknesses, and motivations.

• Knowledge of the AI (alignment) ecosystem. You know the field well enough to know where the strongest people are.

• Bonus: recruiting experience. You've sourced, assessed, or closed candidates, and have developed views on what excellent recruiting looks like.

People

• Interpersonally strong. You build good working relationships with different types of people, can tailor a message to your audience, and handle difficult conversations with care and courage. Colleagues feel supported around you, and trust you with sensitive topics.

• Good judgment about people and culture. You read people’s motivations, and are thoughtful about how factors like salary, office environment, and titles shape how people relate to each other. You can reason from first principles about cultural questions like how research programs should interact, and keeping morale high as AI advances.

• Bonus: HR experience. You already know your way around HR incidents, payroll, benefits and visas.

Other areas

• For management: you’ve managed 2+ people for 6+ months, and have detailed views on management and team composition. You’re strong at the object-level work of the area you’d lead.

• For legal: you can understand details of dense written documents, and summarise the key takeaways, tradeoffs, and risks to a busy lay audience. You may have some legal experience.

• For IT: you have broad tech knowledge, and can figure out new tools or technologies quickly. You don't need to be an engineer or have formal IT experience.

• For office management: you care about practical and aesthetic details—acoustics, temperature, food, design, layout, equipment—that make up a work space.

Application process

Intro chat. 10-15 minute conversation to understand your background and motivations.

Experience interview. Deep dive into your career history, accomplishments, and skills.

Take-home assessments. Approximately six hours of tasks which simulate working in Operations at Resolution. We find that assessments like these provide some of the strongest evidence about future performance, so truly appreciate your time in completing these tasks. We’ll compensate you for your time, subject to right-to-work constraints.

Interview on take-home assessment. We’ll discuss your take-home work, understanding your reasoning and seeing how you reason about new problems.

Work trial. 2-5 days working with us on real problems to assess mutual fit.

Logistics

Salary: Your salary depends on the scope, autonomy and impact we expect you to have while working at Resolution. The expected range of in-person salaries for these roles is:

• Level 3: $198,000

• Level 4: $258,000

• Level 5: $352,000

• Level 6: $437,000

Strong early-career operators will typically come in at level 3. Someone capable of leading a small team would likely start at level 6. We're open to hiring at higher levels for the right candidate.

Location: Berkeley, California. Remote may be considered in exceptional cases.

Benefits:

• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year, in addition to public holidays.

• Comprehensive healthcare insurance (medical, dental, vision).

• Unlimited sick leave to prioritize your well-being.

• An unconditional 401(k) contribution equal to 4% of your salary.

Visa sponsorship: For Research Operations, we can sponsor visas for relocation to Berkeley. We can’t guarantee visa sponsorship for other roles, though this will be possible in some circumstances.

Minimum education: A bachelor's degree in a field relevant to the role, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or professional experience that demonstrates comparable knowledge.

Deadline: Applications are rolling—please apply ASAP. We’ll respond to applications within one week of receipt.

Start date: ASAP.

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