Program Officer AI Model Safety
A nonprofit grantmaking organization advancing OpenAI's mission of ensuring AGI benefits all humanity through AI-related scientific, resilience, economic, and community programs.
Funding history
About OpenAI Foundation
OpenAI Foundation is the nonprofit mission-governing entity that controls OpenAI Group PBC. It funds and operates programs focused on life sciences and curing diseases, AI resilience, civil society and philanthropy, and AI's economic impact.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage grantmaking across independent evaluations, standards, foundational safety research, and AI control. You will investigate grants, recommend awards, develop new initiatives, route AI resources to grantees, shape strategy, and maintain relationships across the AI safety ecosystem.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of AI safety experience
- Hands-on experience in model safety or evaluations, safety teams, grantmaking, or organization building
- Fluency in evaluations, red-teaming, auditing, interpretability, control, and alignment research
- Knowledge of frontier AI capabilities and risks
- Ability to own ambitious, loosely scoped projects
- Grantmaking, VC, philanthropic, or technical safety research experience
Responsibilities
- Run grantmaking across testing, evaluations, standards, safety research, and AI control
- Conduct grant investigations and make recommendations to the board
- Identify, scope, and seed priority projects and organizations
- Route AI resources to safety grantees
- Develop program strategy
- Build relationships across the AI safety ecosystem