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  • Investigate and evaluate early-stage grant opportunities focused on transformative AI safety and governance.
  • Build partnerships and manage relationships with applicants and grantees to support high-impact projects.
  • Contribute to improving grantmaking processes and tooling, including LLM-assisted workflows.

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Global 5w PTO

  • Lead the EA Infrastructure Fund, shaping millions in grantmaking to strengthen the effective altruism ecosystem.
  • Drive strategic direction, grow the donor base, and oversee the Community Building Grants program.
  • Contribute to the broader EA Funds strategy and build partnerships with funders and organizations.

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We are a growing team of 66 core staff, dedicated to building a flourishing future through evidence, reason, and compassion.

Global 5w PTO

  • Manage grants operations: maintain Airtable database, process applications, run analyses, and support grantmaking.
  • Handle external communications: manage EA Funds inbox, draft donor-facing materials, and support relationship tracking.
  • Drive team productivity: break down goals, track deadlines, improve workflows, and support financial management.

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people applying effective altruism principles to solve global problems. It grew from 42 to 66 core staff in 2025, fostering a culture of evidence, reason, and compassion.

US

  • Develop and execute comprehensive communications strategies to increase awareness of AI safety.
  • Translate complex research into accessible narratives for diverse audiences.
  • Support executive leadership by coordinating workflows, projects, and organizational processes.

They focus on reducing major risks associated with advanced AI systems through research and advocacy. Their collaborative, inclusive remote team is mission-driven and works on critical challenges facing society.

Global 6w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Serve as the product bridge between safety research and product, translating model evaluations into guardrails.
  • Own the safety roadmap, prioritizing features based on research findings and customer requirements.
  • Partner with modeling teams to interpret safety evaluations and understand model behavior across adversarial inputs.

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company that builds cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products for enterprises. They are a global team of researchers, engineers, and designers passionate about their craft, with offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and other major cities.

$131,186–$180,381/yr
US

  • Lead independent test and evaluation research programs in NLP and LLM safety to protect the public from AI system harms.
  • Develop competitive research proposals, secure funding, and serve as principal investigator for digital safety research programs.
  • Analyze experimental results, design research challenges, and host workshops at leading AI safety conferences.

UL Research Institutes is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing safety science research to create a more secure and sustainable world. With a global reach and a century of experience, they foster a collaborative and scientific culture to address critical safety issues.

US

  • Provide strategic, intellectual, and operational leadership for the AI Century Study, a 100-year national research effort.
  • Lead the full research lifecycle, ensuring high standards for quality, ethics, and reproducibility.
  • Build partnerships with funders, academic collaborators, and policymakers to expand the study's reach and influence.

AIR is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit research organization founded in 1946, conducting behavioral and social science research to improve lives. With a mission-focused culture, they deliver evidence-driven technical assistance to close gaps in opportunity and access.

$128,000–$128,000/yr
Global

  • Own GiveDirectly's learning agenda for Emergency Cash programs, setting research priorities and strategy.
  • Lead strategic impact evaluations and research projects across multiple countries.
  • Establish best practices and systems for research quality and ethics within the Emergency Cash portfolio.

GiveDirectly delivers cash transfers directly to people living in poverty. Since 2011, they have delivered over $1B to 2+ million people across 15 countries, and their culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical.

$100,000–$150,000/yr
US

  • Design and implement security controls and governance frameworks for AI and machine learning systems.
  • Develop threat models and security architectures tailored to LLMs, AI applications, and training data pipelines.
  • Identify and mitigate AI-specific risks like prompt injection, model abuse, and data exfiltration.

Jobgether is a platform that uses AI-powered matching to connect candidates with job opportunities. They operate as a technology-focused company with a remote team, emphasizing fair and efficient hiring processes.

Global

  • Own the strategic learning and measurement agenda for large lump sum transfers, district transformation, and cash plus coaching products.
  • Direct large-scale monitoring and evaluation infrastructure to track program performance and impact at scale.
  • Provide senior technical leadership on formal research, cultivate academic partnerships, and support product design with evidence.

GiveDirectly delivers cash transfers directly to people living in poverty, having distributed over $1 billion to more than 2 million recipients across 15 countries since 2011. The organization is one of Time100's Most Influential Companies of 2026 and fosters a candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical culture.

Global

  • Set and evolve the research direction for A1’s core intelligence, including context representation, memory, reasoning, planning, and orchestration.
  • Define evaluation frameworks that measure real-world usefulness, robustness, safety, and long-term behavior.
  • Own alignment, safety, and guardrail strategy as first-class product concerns.

A1 builds a proactive smart assistant for everyday users to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organizing, and workflows. We are a small, high-talent-density team focused on shipping high-quality work and learning at rapid speed.

Global

  • Own full-cycle recruitment for AI Research, ML, data, evaluations, and ML infra roles.
  • Partner with research leadership and the CEO to define highly specialised candidate profiles.
  • Source talent from AI labs, research organisations, universities, and open-source communities.

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. We are a small, highly focused team of under 50 people backed by top investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.

$99,879–$99,879/yr
Global 5w PTO

  • Own the strategy and execution of CEA's Opportunities Board.
  • Iterate the board’s UX and features to increase high-impact role placements.
  • Develop and test marketing channels to grow traffic and validate impact at scale.

Centre for Effective Altruism stewards the effective altruism movement to solve global problems. With 66 core staff, we foster a culture of inclusion and apply evidence, reason, and compassion.

US UK

  • Lead complex legal AI programs from strategy through adoption, creating structure and momentum for enterprise AI initiatives.
  • Guide senior legal stakeholders with credibility, advising on use cases, governance, and adoption strategies.
  • Orchestrate multidisciplinary teams and turn delivery signals into program decisions to drive practical adoption and measurable outcomes.

Harbor Labs builds next-generation AI-enabled legal services. They partner with leading law firms and corporate legal departments, with a global team of 900+ professionals focused on shaping the future of the legal industry.

$78,000–$97,000/yr
US

  • Lead participatory research and co-design projects with partner organizations to develop AI Civics toolkits and training resources.
  • Steward relationships with national partners in K-12 education, labor, faith, or advocacy sectors.
  • Produce case studies, reports, and academic publications to advance public understanding of AI governance.

Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization studying the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation. It is a small to medium-sized organization that values empirical evidence and respect for human dignity, with a collaborative culture focused on inclusive engagement and anti-racist practices.

$120,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain automated AI evaluation pipelines for production LLM applications.
  • Develop prompt engineering strategies and evaluate model performance using quantitative methods.
  • Analyze production AI behavior with Python, SQL, and statistical techniques to identify improvement opportunities.

GovWorx provides an AI-powered platform, CommsCoach, that supports 9-1-1 and emergency communications centers by automating quality assurance, training, and real-time call evaluation. The company is a growing technology team focused on public safety, collaborating across AI, engineering, product, and data science.

US

  • Own end-to-end delivery of AI transformation engagements as the single accountable lead from scoping through expansion.
  • Partner with Applied AI Architects to drive measurable outcomes and translate ambiguous inputs into structured engagement plans.
  • Build delivery frameworks, templates, and methodologies that scale consistent, high-quality outcomes across the organization.

Forgd partners with Anthropic to help enterprise customers adopt Claude Code, Claude for Enterprise, and the Claude Developer Platform. They work hands-on with organizations to demonstrate AI capabilities, run proof-of-value workshops, and guide multi-week engagements that change how teams build software and run their businesses.

Australia

  • Define the strategic direction and security frameworks for AI systems at scale.
  • Lead research into emerging AI threats and drive threat modeling.
  • Serve as the technical authority for AI security across Canva.

Canva is a design platform that empowers the world to design. We have campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, and other Australian cities, with a culture that trusts our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them.

$280,000–$420,000/yr

  • Own AI operations and governance across the enterprise, ensuring systems are reliable, compliant, and secure.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership in model evaluation, tuning, and troubleshooting alongside program oversight.
  • Build and lead a team responsible for AI sustainment, including strategic planning and executive communication.

Shield AI builds autonomous systems for defense and aerospace. As a growing company, it emphasizes a culture of innovation and technical rigor, seeking leaders to operationalize AI governance.

$330,000–$330,000/yr
Americas

  • Develop and communicate an AI strategy with wide organizational alignment, building an iterative roadmap of AI transformation initiatives.
  • Own the AI transformation operating cadence, including meeting rhythms and reporting forums, while partnering with Engineering on tooling operations.
  • Build an AI learning program and measurement framework, infusing the organization with insights into AI developments and fostering cross-functional adoption.

Change.org is the world's largest platform for democracy, building an operating system for modern democracy by leveraging AI to give people a greater voice, personalize voter guides, and bring people across the political spectrum together. They are expanding a talented team at the intersection of technology and social impact, focused on building healthier democracies globally.

Europe Unlimited PTO

  • Lead AI enablement for business teams end-to-end: assess, conduct workshops, and track adoption KPIs.
  • Work with champions and stakeholders to drive change management and ensure sustained AI usage.
  • Deliver workshops personally and facilitate sessions with external trainers to produce concrete outcomes.

Neurons Lab is an AI consultancy that runs enterprise AI adoption programs for major clients. It is a fast-growing consultancy with a focus on enabling business teams to use AI effectively.