Program Associate
Our research team is seeking Program Associates who will provide critical support to the team to maximize the impact of a program portfolio of life-saving and poverty-alleviating programs. This is primarily a project management role, providing key support to GiveWell researchers during their research and grant investigations.
Research Analyst
As a Research Analyst on GiveWell's Commons team, you will support our broader research team in identifying cost-effective giving opportunities. Your work will contribute to GiveWell’s decisions about how hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to save and improve the lives of people living in the lowest-income communities in the world. You will also play a key role in fulfilling our commitment to transparency and ensuring that the work we produce is accurate and high quality.
Founding Generalist
Join us as a Founding Generalist and take real ownership over core programs that shape the AI safety talent pipeline. As a Founding Generalist, you'll have real ownership over core programs that shape the AI safety talent pipeline. You'll take on a wide range of responsibilities that combine strategy, relationship-building, and execution. This isn't a typical operations role—you'll be a key builder on our team, taking on high-stakes work with significant autonomy.
SPAR Part-Time Contractor
Help scale SPAR's operational capacity and deliver great programming to our community of AI safety researchers.
Research Operations Lead
We are seeking a Research Operations Lead to optimize the operational infrastructure of our Founders Pledge Research Team. This role will optimize the operational infrastructure of our 16-person research team and play a crucial project management role. You'll streamline research processes, enhance team productivity, and ensure our research capabilities scale effectively as we continue to grow our impact in philanthropic research and cause prioritization.
Full-Stack Engineer
This position involves working with Max Tegmark and colleagues at the Beneficial AI Foundation supporting the turbocharging of formal verification with AI tools as described here and in Towards Guaranteed Safe AI (a high-level introduction is given in the 2nd half of this TED talk). The core idea is to deploy not untrusted neural networks, but AI-written verified code implementing machine-learning algorithms and knowledge. The position can be either remote from anywhere or by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Communications Lead
1Day Sooner works to combat the present and future threat of infectious diseases across a diverse range of focus areas. The Communications Lead will help craft and maintain a cohesive presentation of 1Day Sooner’s projects and brand in mass media, social media, public-facing materials, and internal communications.
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
SaferAI is seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to serve as a key executive partner to the Executive Director. The main responsibility of the COO will be to ensure that SaferAI remains an excellent, high-performing organization. This broad leadership role encompasses fundraising, management, hiring, strategy, and organization-wide processes.
Software Engineer
This position involves working with Bryan Parno, Max Tegmark and colleagues at the Beneficial AI Foundation on turbocharging formal verification of Rust code with AI tools as described here and in Towards Guaranteed Safe AI (a high-level introduction is given in the 2nd half of this TED talk).
Research Scientist
We are seeking expressions of interest from both experienced and first-time Research Scientists to develop and execute on a safety research agenda and/or accelerate our existing projects.
Research Engineer
We are seeking expressions of interest from research engineers looking to work on AI safety projects and red-teaming.
Research Intern
Contribute to cutting-edge research in scalable, distributed machine learning systems alongside experienced researchers and engineers. Explore new ways of building and verifying neural networks that operate across huge, decentralised, topologies of heterogenous devices.
Communications Director and Staff Director
CARMA is seeking an exceptional combined Communications Director and Staff Director, in one person, to play a pivotal role in advancing our mission. This position combines both strategic leadership and hands-on execution of communications with high-level organizational support to ensure CARMA operates effectively while communicating its critical work with clarity and impact.
Senior Economist, Effects of Transformative AI
CARMA seeks an innovative economist to join our Geostrategic Dynamics team, exploring how advanced AI systems will reshape global economic paradigms, incentive structures, and power dynamics. You'll develop models to analyze critical risks including labor obsolescence, economic instability, concentration of power, shocks to the financial system, and degraded living standards as AI capabilities accelerate.
AI Safety Operations Contractor
We're seeking an exceptional AI Safety Operations Contractor to serve as the operational backbone of our organization. This role combines executive assistant duties with strategic operations work, supporting our leadership team and research initiatives in the critical field of AI safety.
Head of Recruiting
We’re looking for someone to build and lead 80,000 Hours’ recruiting function from scratch. We’d like to make 15–25 strong hires each year through a recruiting team. Currently, we make around 10 hires — each of which represents a very large investment in capacity from team leads — which is a major bottleneck on our growth. Our ideal candidate can solve the problems, hire the team, and build the systems needed to pull this off. So we expect this to be a challenging role which will require substantial relevant experience.
Research Engineer - Novel AI Platforms for Multiscale Alignment
The Alignment of Dynamical Cognitive Systems program seeks a Research Engineer to develop novel AI platforms addressing critical alignment challenges and practical LLM agents.
Senior Technical Specialist, AI Risk Assessment
We are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist to join our Comprehensive Risk Assessment team. This role combines original research in AI safety and technical governance with strong emphasis on conceptual depth and quality assurance leadership.
AI Offense-Defense Dynamics Lead Researcher
In this role, you'll lead research to decode these offense-defense dynamics, examining how specific attributes of AI technologies influence their propensity to either enhance societal safety or amplify risks.
Senior Economist, AI Geostrategic and Economic Mechanisms
CARMA seeks an innovative economist to join our Geostrategic Dynamics team, exploring how advanced AI systems will reshape global economic paradigms, incentive structures, and power dynamics. You'll develop models to analyze critical risks including labor obsolescence, economic instability, concentration of power, shocks to the financial system, and degraded living standards as AI capabilities accelerate.