Open Philanthropy’s Technical AI Safety team is recruiting for grantmakers to support research aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. We’re hiring at all levels of seniority. Open Phil’s TAIS grantmaking has grown rapidly, from $40M in 2024 to being on track for over $130M in 2025 (in addition...
The Open Philanthropy Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness (BPP) team is hiring and is also looking for promising new grantees! The BPP team's focus is on reducing catastrophic and existential risks from biology -- work that we think is currently neglected by the EA community and requires substantially more effort. While...
Open Philanthropy’s Technical AI Safety team is recruiting for grantmakers to support research aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. We’re hiring at all levels of seniority.
Open Phil’s TAIS grantmaking has grown rapidly, from $40M in 2024 to being on track for over $130M in 2025 (in addition OP’s other AI safety grantmaking in AI governance and policy and capacity building). We plan to expand both the quality and quantity of our support in 2026 and need more specialists to help us achieve this. In one of these roles, you'd likely be in charge of choosing where tens of millions of dollars of high impact research funding are directed annually.
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The Open Philanthropy Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness (BPP) team is hiring and is also looking for promising new grantees!
The BPP team's focus is on reducing catastrophic and existential risks from biology -- work that we think is currently neglected by the EA community and requires substantially more effort. While AI risks may be larger, the strategy for mitigating biological risks is both much clearer and likely more tractable, though the cause area is severely lacking in talent to execute well. Notably, we don’t think you need a background in biology to do most of these roles well.
Some of the focus areas they're excited for more work in include: physical transmission suppression, metagenomic... (read more)