David Peinador Veiga


AI Safety Scientist leading evaluations work at LILA. Two years of previous experience building CBRN evaluations for frontier labs. Background in applied AI and physics.

Experience

May 2026 - Present Lila Sciences | Member of Technical Staff, AI Safety
  • Evaluations lead:
    • Designed and implemented evaluation strategy at LILA. Evaluation assessments for internal model releases.
    • Collaboration with the Research and Engineering team and development of the evaluation stack
    • Built evaluation analysis pipeline
  • MATS mentorship Mentoring a project on Automatic red teaming
Dec 2024 - Apr 2026 Faculty Science | Senior DS
  • Technical leadership:
    • Delivered AI Safety projects for frontier labs. Worked with Subject Matter Experts to design suites of capability LLM evaluations. The evaluations I built feature system cards for Claude 4 - 4.6 and Meta Muse releases.
    • Tech lead in a project for the BBC delivering Generative AI apps involving agents and multimodal applications.
  • Management of technical roles and mentoring for the Faculty Fellowship.
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024 Faculty Science | Data scientist
  • Delivered AI projects for clients in the UK public sector (local and central government, defense, national security), and private sector (Pharmaceutical). One project was presented at the 2025 AI Action Summit.
  • Techniques applied include OCR, document understanding (pre-LLM), computer vision, entity resolution..
  • Progression: Promoted from DS level 1 to level 2 after one year. Promoted again to Senior DS one year later.
May 2022 - July 2022 Faculty Science | DS Fellow
  • Internship that included training and the delivery of a 6-week project for Great Ormond Street Hospital.