About Open Philanthropy

Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic funder and advisor; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. Our current giving areas include navigating transformative AI, global health and development, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2024, we recommended $650 million of grants to high-impact causes, and we’ve recommended over $4.8 billion in grants since our formation. Our spending has grown significantly in 2025, and we expect to continue to scale our grantmaking for several years.

About the Technical AI Safety team

The Technical AI Safety (TAIS) team funds technical research aimed at reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI, and is housed under our broader work on navigating transformative AI, the largest focus area at Open Philanthropy. Last year, we made $40 million in grants, and this year we expect to make >$130 million. We plan to continue expanding our grantmaking in 2026, and are looking to hire additional staff to enable this.

We think that technical AI safety grantmaking is a highly impactful career for reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. Grantmakers have an outsized influence on the field of technical AI safety: the role involves influencing dozens of research projects at once, setting incentives for the entire field, and growing the field by supporting new researchers and incubating organizations that could play important roles in the future. Our grants include general operating support to organizations conducting AI safety research (e.g. FAR.AI, Redwood Research), project-based grants to academic and independent researchers (e.g. through our recent RFP), and proactively seeding new initiatives.

We only have three grantmakers on the team, and are regularly bottlenecked by technical grantmaker capacity, particularly as we have scaled. If you join our team, you may be able to significantly increase the quantity and quality of grants we’re able to make. For example, growing our team’s capacity may enable us to:

• Periodically update and reopen our recent RFP, keeping it open for longer (potentially permanently open), to match the substantial interest we have received from researchers throughout the year, even as the AI safety field continues to grow.

• Spend more time actively seeking out and creating exciting new grant opportunities.

• Engage more with our largest grantees to ensure they are set up for success, including suggesting alterations to make their research more impactful.

• Write more in public about research we think would be impactful and how to make it happen.

• Investigate more of the promising proposals we receive, instead of having to aggressively triage due to limited grantmaker capacity.

About the roles

We are looking for multiple hires at a range of seniority levels: Senior Program Associate, Associate Program Officer, and Senior Program Officer. Below, we outline what we are looking for across the roles, and then give more deta