TL;DR: Coefficient Giving is running a major hiring round for 10+ grantmakers and senior generalists across five Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) teams. We're allocating around $1 billion in 2026 across AI safety and catastrophic biorisk, and we’re acutely capacity-constrained. Apply here by May 17.
Why we’re hiring
A core premise of our work is that if a global catastrophe caused by transformative AI or biotechnology could be prevented by funding and isn't, we consider it our responsibility. The work our GCR teams fund today — from technical AI safety research and governance to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness — will shape how well humanity navigates some of the most consequential decisions of the coming decade. Timelines to transformative AI appear to be shortening: there's an overwhelming amount of work to do to make this go well, and quite plausibly only a few years to do it.
We expect to move around $1 billion in GCR grants in 2026 (and significantly more in future years), but we're significantly understaffed relative to the opportunities in front of us. We've previously helped jump-start the field of AI safety and address other existential threats like mirror bacteria, and we want to do considerably more.
This hiring round is one piece of a broader push to scale our giving, move faster as a team, and encourage our grantees to raise their ambitions. We'll have more to say on this in a future post, and we expect these changes to meaningfully empower new hires and increase their impact.
What we’re looking for
The job description provides a comprehensive overview of the different roles we're hiring for and what we're looking for in candidates. In a nutshell:
- We're hiring grantmakers and senior generalists across five GCR teams at all levels of seniority — AI Governance & Policy (AIGP), Short Timelines Special Projects (STSP), Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness (BPP), Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building (GCRCB), and the GCR Executive Team.
- In addition to 7+ distinct types of grantmaking positions, we're hiring for 3+ senior generalist roles that work closely with program leadership to amplify the impact of the wider team. These include a Chief of Staff for AI Governance & Policy (working with Luke Muehlhauser), a Chief of Staff for Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness (working with Andrew Snyder-Beattie), and a senior generalist on the GCR executive team (working with Emily Oehlsen and George Rosenfeld).
- Each grantmaker is responsible, on average, for $10M+ per year in high-impact grants, and many move far more (e.g. >$50M) in their first year. New grantmakers can have substantial counterfactual impact by helping create organizations and sub-fields that wouldn't otherwise exist, scoping priority projects and finding founders to lead them, and helping some of the most impactful organizations in the world scale ambitiously.
- Our biggest bottleneck is people, not funding. We have more promising funding opportunities than we can evaluate and act on. The marginal work we currently can't get to is work we think is critically important.
- Most of these roles don't require deep technical expertise. We are hiring some specialists, but for the majority of roles we're looking for strong generalist judgment, research skills, and the ability to get up to speed quickly in complex domains.
- You don't have to pick a single role before applying. We evaluate candidates for all their preferred teams through a single streamlined process, so indicate interest in every team that could be a plausible fit.
- Don't count yourself out if you don't match every criterion. There's no such thing as a perfect candidate, and the skills that make someone great in these roles are hard to predict from resumes alone. If you're unsure whether you're qualified, we'd still encourage you to apply.
If you want to know more about what this work looks like day-to-day, you can read profiles of a few grantmakers across our GCR teams here.
If this work excites you, apply here by May 17 at 11:59 PM Pacific. If you have specific questions that would help you decide whether to apply, you can reach us at [email protected].
I joined Coefficient Giving a few weeks ago as Chief of Staff on the GCR executive team, and I've updated strongly upward on how much counterfactual impact each new hire here can have! The GCR team is stretched really thin relative to the problems we're aiming to solve, and some of the opportunities we can't currently pursue feel really painful to leave on the table. I'd really encourage people to apply: in my view, these are some of the most exciting roles in the ecosystem right now, and CG is also just a very fun place to work, with deeply caring, smart colleagues and a great internal culture.
One signal-boost: my own team is hiring a senior generalist as part of this round. Most of the round is grantmaker roles, but if you have a strong generalist skill set, please apply to our team!