Senior Freelance Consultant, AI Safety

Location: Remote 

Engagement type: Consultancy, project-based. Starting ASAP.

Moonshot is seeking a Senior Freelance Consultant to support the delivery of our AI Safety portfolio. This is a hands on, technical engagement focused on red teaming, adversarial evaluation, and methodological development across harm categories including pathways to violence, extremism, child sexual exploitation, abuse and grooming (CSEA), mental health and crisis, and risks affecting children and teenagers.

The consultant will work closely with Moonshot's AI Safety team to design and execute evaluation frameworks, test scenarios, and scoring criteria, translating violence prevention, safeguarding, and behavioural risk expertise into structured, testable outputs suitable for technical and policy audiences.

This role does not include client relationship management, team leadership, or business development responsibilities. The focus is on the technical and methodological work itself, and all work must be delivered within a clear ethical framework, in compliance with contractual, legal, data protection, and ethics obligations.
What the work involves

Engagements vary, but may involve:
- Red teaming and adversarial evaluation of AI systems against defined harm categories.
- Reviewing model responses against harm and risk criteria and providing expert judgement.
- Bringing subject matter expertise to a specific harm area, such as grooming and CSEA, radicalisation pathways, crisis signalling, or teen online safety.
- Supporting the design of evaluation frameworks that translate real world harm knowledge into structured, testable criteria.
- Contributing to the design of intervention logic that connects at risk users to appropriate support.
- Drafting methodology or findings suitable for technical and government audiences.