Hard problems need great people.

Judd Rosenblatt

CEO

• Writes on AI safety in The Wall Street Journal
• Led AE to first place in the Neural Latents Benchmark
• Yale

Greg Buckner

COO

• Co-Founder and COO, AE Studio
• Formerly Carbon Five and Intuit

Ed Chen

Head of Data Science

• PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics, Caltech
• A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Harvard
• Formerly Analytic Investors

Melanie Plaza

CTO

• Former CTO, To The Tens
• Co-founder, ELIX
• BS, Yale

Diogo de Lucena

Chief Scientist

• Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard SEAS
• PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine

Doug Lorenzen

CFO

• Co-founder, first investor, and CFO of Open English
• Rising Star CFO of the Year, LA Business Journal
• Former CFO, Talespin

Rafael Besen

Chief People Officer

• Former Head of Product Development, GeekHunter
• Master's in Computer Science

Felipe Taboada

VP of Engineering

• Helped build the Brazilian Ministry of Health's electronic medical record

Carlos Bonetti

Technical Director

• BSc in Computer Science

Fábio Perez

Data Science Technical Director

• Awards and international patents for his research

Mike Vaiana

Director of Research

• PhD in Computational Data Science, University at Buffalo
• Co-built AE's first-place Neural Latents Benchmark model

Aaron Thomas

Head of Design

• Design training through MIT, IDEO, and NN/g

Husam Machlovi

Head of Product

• Former founder; shipped products for Fortune 100 companies

Glauco Neves

Tech Director / TPM

• A decade as a startup CTO

Tiago Gaspari

Data Science Technical Director

• Master's in computer vision

Chris Westgate

Design Director

• Formerly at BetterUp
• Led design at StormForge
• Serial startup founder

Adam Moftah

Program Director

• Studied Art at Yale
• Co-founded a tech consultancy

Adriana Calejo

Director of Government & Strategic Partnerships

• Two decades at the CIA
• CIA liaison officer to DARPA

James Bowler

Head of AI Research Partnerships

• Host of the AI Alignment Podcast
• Formerly Two Sigma and Tesla
• Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon

Daniel Camargo

Technical Director

Guilherme Pacheco

Director of Technical Excellence

Cristian Agafitei

Head of Hiring

Troy Larssen

Program Director

Jeff Patterson

Head of Strategy for Consulting

Vanessa da Conceição

Fullstack Engineer

• Helped found AE Studio in 2016

Fabio Coelho

Fullstack Engineer

• Founding team at ElectricSMS, later sold to ReCharge

Mateus Batista

Fullstack Engineer

• Contributor to the open-source Bold Design System
• Helped build the Brazilian Ministry of Health's electronic medical record

Allan Girao

Fullstack Engineer

• Master's in Computer Science

Raphael Lupchinski

Software Developer

• Formerly Quizlet, ArcTouch, and ADP
• Computer Science, UFRGS

Jean Mayer

Fullstack Developer

• 150+ projects and POCs taken from idea to deployment

Thiago Isaias

Fullstack Engineer

• Bachelor's in Computer Science

Justin Vencel

Technical Product Manager

• Y Combinator, Summer 2017
• Multiple-time founder

Andre Rodrigues

Product Manager

• Leads AE's three-year Azul Airlines engagement
• Former founder and CEO

Wellington Santos

Fullstack Engineer

• BSc in Information Systems

Alexandre Barneche

Research Associate

• Projects under the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme

José Francisco Bianchi Filho

Data Scientist

• Master's in Electrical Engineering

Florin Pop

ML Engineer

• PhD in service-oriented computing

Francisco Carrillo

Senior Data Scientist

• PhD, Princeton
• AI systems generating hundreds of millions in revenue

Luckas Frigo

TPM

• Master's in design focused on human factors
• Former CTO and Product Director

Pedro Bertoncini

Product Designer

• Founded a branding studio; 280+ projects

Gregory Simon

Alignment Researcher

• Former AI/ML scientist at General Motors
• PhD in Mathematics, University of Michigan

Bruno Ferreira

UX/UI Design Engineer

• Founded three companies

Mobo Williams

Data Scientist

• PhD in Statistical Physics, Harvard
• BS in Physics, MIT

Ozan Ozyegen

Data Scientist

• PhD and MSc in Data Science

Stijn Servaes

Lead Research Manager

• PhD in brain imaging and Alzheimer's diagnosis
• Postdoc, McGill

Yuri Galindo

Data Scientist

• Publications at leading AI venues
• Formerly at Brazil's largest bank

Keenan Pepper

Senior Data Scientist

• Wrote noise cancellation used in LIGO's first gravitational wave detection
• Collaborates with Princeton's Michael Graziano
• Nine years at Salesforce

Peter Klipfel

TPM

• Founded and exited two businesses

Thiago Victorino

Product Designer & Manager

• Former Head of Product

Nerissa del Rosario

Product Designer & Manager

• Designed the RAVE inflight system flying on Turkish Airlines and LATAM

Igor Quevedo

Fullstack Engineer

• Formerly at YC-backed startups

Alex McKenzie

Alignment Researcher

• Outstanding Paper, ICML 2025 Actionable Interpretability workshop
• Formerly LASR Labs and SumUp
• Oxford, Georgia Tech

Mariana Sebastiani

Operations

• PhD in Transportation Engineering, UC Irvine

Erick Martinez

Alignment Researcher

• Formerly TikTok

Ryan Kieffer

VP of Operations and Partnerships

• Founded and sold multiple companies
• Former technology consultant, PwC
• BS, USC; JD, Pepperdine

Aidan Gawronski

Alignment Researcher

• Economics, University of Waterloo
• Encrypted messaging startup later folded into WhatsApp

Grant Fleming

Alignment Researcher

• Formerly Rhombus Power
• Co-author of a book on responsible data science
• North Carolina State University

Fernando Papi

Alignment Researcher

• MSc in AI and Multi-Agent Systems
• MBA in Financial Engineering

Julius Simonelli

Alignment Researcher

• Formerly Betterview and Orbital Insight
• Wrote the Center for AI Safety's ML Safety Newsletter
• Cornell

Pedro Ávila

Research Manager

• Formerly Google
• Master's from Columbia, where he teaches applied data science

Sam Donahue

Alignment Researcher

• SPAR fellow
• Formerly BrightDrop/GM and Alaffia
• Colby College

Chris McDermott

Product Manager

• Formerly SendGrid, DataRobot, and Wallaroo.AI

John Lund

Research Manager

• Master's degrees in philosophy and chaplaincy

Matthew Cecil

Alignment Researcher

• Formerly Amazon Alexa and Rad AI

Stacey Svetlichnaya

Alignment Researcher

• Former CTO, AI Objectives Institute
• Founding deep learning engineer, Weights & Biases
• BS and MS, Stanford

Marco Baumann

Software Developer

• Founded a software house and a real estate background-check startup

Martin More

Alignment Researcher

• PhD in Computer Science

Tori Finch

Executive Assistant

• Formerly TikTok
• BlueDot Impact AI safety courses

André Américo

Product Manager

• Master's in economics

Steve Klosterman

Alignment Researcher

• PhD in Biology, Harvard
• Author of Data Science Projects with Python
• Award-winning research on leaf and flower life cycles

Jonathan Michala

Alignment Research Manager

• Former Research Manager, MATS
• PIBBSS mentor on cooperative AI
• PhD in Mathematics, USC

Kanika Bansal

Research Manager

• Formerly U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Postdoc, Columbia and University at Buffalo
• PhD in Physics, IISER Pune

Tyler Crosse

Alignment Researcher

• MS in Computer Science, Georgia Tech

Allegra Laro

Alignment Researcher

• Formerly Apple and Intuit
• PhD in Chemical Engineering, Stanford

Gabriel Burstyn

Alignment Engineer

• Led a government-funded AI project on rabbinic texts at Brown University

James Ryan

Alignment Researcher

• Former DARPA principal investigator
• PhD in Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz

Sunny Howard

Alignment Researcher

• DPhil in Laser Physics, Oxford
• LASR Labs fellow

Francisco Ferreira da Silva

Alignment Researcher

• Senior Fellow, Pivotal Research
• Former Head of Product, Delft Networks
• PhD in Computer Science, TU Delft

Theo Sechopoulos

Alignment Researcher

• Researcher in Josh Tenenbaum's lab, MIT

Zach Maas

Alignment Researcher

• Coefficient Giving Technical AI Safety grantee
• Spotlight paper, ICML 2026 Mechanistic Interpretability workshop

Caio Doneda

Fullstack Engineer

Lucas Pinheiro

Fullstack Engineer

Dylan Yem

Product Designer & Manager

Peewee Silva

Fullstack Engineer

Adão Pardim Jr.

Fullstack Engineer

Mason Seale

Technical Product Manager

Riteeka Bharani

Product Designer & Manager

Vinicius Borges

Fullstack Engineer

Lorenzo Tomaz

Data Scientist

Eduardo Mylonas

Product Designer & Manager

Jonathan Bertoldi

Fullstack Engineer

Newton Sander

Fullstack Engineer

Dayson Marx

Entrepreneur in Residence

Andrew Wiskus

Technical Product Manager

Nicolas Busato

Fullstack Engineer, Technical Product Manager

Gustavo Higuchi

Developer

Christiane Bittencourt

Office Operations Manager

Will Grisa

Fullstack Engineer

Flavio Kicis

Software Engineer

Stefano Damiano

Fullstack Developer

Thalys Viana

Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Cruz

Software Engineer

Rogério Júnior

Fullstack Engineer

Thiago Scodeler

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Eduardo Polmann

Fullstack Engineer

Philip Gubbins

Chief of Staff

Pedro Sfriso

Senior Data Scientist

Jarbas Moraes

Fullstack / PM

Thomas Jones

Data Scientist

Christelle Adrienne Sinamban

Executive Assistant

William Sanches

Fullstack Engineer

Luiz Braun

Marketing Manager

Bre Plaza

Office Operations Manager

Guilherme Haschel

Senior Software Engineer

Nilton Neto

Software Engineer

Eric Garduno

Partner Development Associate

Amanda Rossi

Office Operations Manager

Bernardo Presser

Design Engineer

Rovelcio Backes

Engineer & Tech Lead

Jerahmel Juane

Customer Support at Instill

Gabriel Oliveira

Software Engineer

Jonatas Zechim

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Manoela Leripio

Quality Assurance Analyst

Pedro Kondak

Fullstack Developer

Edson Souza

Fullstack Engineer

Natalia Cidral

QA

Matheus Pedroza

Alignment Researcher

Lorenzo Vella

Alignment Engineer

Tobi Yañez Tandeciarz

Alignment Researcher

Kyle Cox

Alignment Researcher

Emma Krentz

Alignment Researcher