Join Dissensus as a Co-Founder to build an independent research lab from the ground up. You will balance deep research into adversarial systems with the operational heavy lifting of establishing a new institution. This is a high-ownership role for a researcher-builder committed to open science and shaping the future of coordination theory.
Co-Founder at Dissensus
Are you a researcher who wants to build something of your own? Dissensus is an independent research lab studying adversarial systems, from AI alignment to financial markets. We are seeking a Co-Founder to help build the lab from the ground up, balancing deep theoretical research with the operational work of securing grants and setting governance. If you have a background in shipping research—whether through papers or code—and are excited by the prospect of 20-40% equity in a mission-driven, open-science project, join us in shaping how we understand coordination and friction in the real world.
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Location
Remote
Compensation
Equity Only (20-40% Stake)
Company
Dissensus
Role overview
Dissensus is an independent research lab focused on studying adversarial systems—complex systems with competing interests—and how they reach, or fail to reach, stable outcomes. Its work spans financial markets, institutional governance, AI alignment, systemic risk, volatility modelling, econometrics, multi-agent reinforcement learning, game theory, network science, and related areas. The company describes its mission as exploring the productive friction that emerges when consensus is impossible or undesirable.
What you will do
- Lead and contribute to primary research projects, producing high-quality publications, preprints, and open-source tools in areas like multi-agent systems and AI governance.
- Drive the operational setup of the lab, including securing grant and academic funding, building governance structures, and managing community outreach.
- Collaborate on the technical and strategic roadmap, from developing Lean 4 formalizations to releasing datasets under permissive licenses for the research community.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses a proven track record of research output, including peer-reviewed publications, preprints, or significant contributions to open-source scientific tools and datasets.
- Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to handle unglamorous operational tasks, such as grant writing and website building, alongside complex theoretical work.
- Maintains a deep interest in adversarial systems or formal methods and is committed to the “open science” movement rather than traditional corporate structures.
Why this role is remarkable
- Secure a genuine co-founder position with a significant 20-40% equity stake in a lab tackling high-stakes fields like AI alignment and formal methods.
- Build an organization’s DNA from scratch, moving beyond traditional institutional constraints to focus on open-source, permissive research that prioritizes impact over monetization.
- Work alongside a founder with a strong academic pedigree, 10+ papers in computational finance, and a background in Lean 4 formalizations and operations.
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