Founded by Yoshua Bengio, LawZero is a nonprofit organization focused on AI safety. In charge of technology, the IT department oversees Cybersecurity, End User support, and the management of the compute setting used to achieve our mission. CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, cloud environments, and the standards that keep them consistent and secure.

This is a hands-on role on a small IT team, with a wide surface area and a lot of room to shape how things are built. Design, deploy, and run Kubernetes clusters for research workloads, including autoscaling, network policies, and workload isolation, both on-premise and in the cloud. Define, communicate, and enforce best practices for CI/CD pipelines: automated builds, tests, container image creation, and deployments, with security scanning and provenance built into the pipeline rather than bolted on.

Implement and manage internal services supporting our research and data teams, providing them with a reliable, secure platform. Manage our cloud environments as code (Terraform or equivalent): accounts, networking, identity, secrets, and cost visibility. Base images, deployment patterns, environment promotion, so researchers and engineers ship without reinventing the plumbing each time.

Embed security controls into everything above: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, supply-chain integrity for dependencies and images, network segmentation, and audit trails. 3–5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a closely related infrastructure role. Not just deploying to it, but operating it: upgrades, RBAC, networking, storage, troubleshooting a cluster that is misbehaving.



Solid CI/CD experience with a modern toolchain (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar), including building pipelines from scratch.Experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining a GitOps workflow is an asset.Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code.

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Linux fundamentals and comfort with a scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash.Fluency in written and spoken English, French is a strong asset.Experience supporting ML or research workloads: GPU scheduling, distributed training, large datasets, high‑throughput storage is an asset.

This matters as much as the technical checklist. Understands supply‑chain risk in a build pipeline: dependency provenance, image signing, artifact integrity, what a compromised runner could reach. Applies least privilege by default and can explain to a researcher why a control exists, without being obstructive about it.

Has practical familiarity with identity and access management, network segmentation, and secure defaults in cloud environments.



A minimum of 20 days vacation per year upon start A minimum retirement savings employer contribution of 4% Generous flexible benefits designed to contribute to your well‑being A team of passionate experts in their field A collaborative and inclusive work environment with offices in the heart of Little Italy, in the trendy Mile-Ex district, close to public transportation LawZero is a non‑profit organization committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe‑by‑design AI systems. Its scientific direction is based on new research and methods proposed by Professor Yoshua Bengio, the most cited AI researcher in the world.

Based in Montreal, LawZero’s research aims to build non‑agentic AI that learns primarily to understand the world rather than to act in it, giving truthful answers to questions based on transparent and externalized probabilistic reasoning. Such AI systems could be used to accelerate scientific discovery, to provide oversight for agentic AI systems, and to advance the understanding of AI risks and how to avoid them. LawZero believes that AI should be cultivated as a global public good—developed and used safely towards human flourishing.

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