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Legal lead for a fast-growing AI safety research nonprofit.

Accelerate and guide AI safety researchers, facilitating high-impact projects. Work with mentors and scholars to provide feedback, drive projects to completion, and support career development. May specialize in theory, engineering, management, or communication. Requires 2-5 years experience in project management, research management, people management, technical research, governance, or mentoring. Please apply by Oct 1 to be considered for a January 2027 start date. We are open to an earlier start date on a case by case basis. We will hold rolling hiring for future cohorts.

Own MATS's mentor selection end to end — headhunting mentors, gathering evaluations from our selection committee and advisors, and proposing how we allocate fellows across mentors and research agendas, three to four cycles a year. It's closest in spirit to grantmaking: the job runs on real taste about AI safety research and the people doing it, and the judgment to turn many messy inputs into a decision you can defend.

Be the product owner for the MATS cohort experience: own fellow- and mentor-facing communications, keep the seminar and workshop calendar coherent across the teams that deliver it, and run extension selection so every fellow is evaluated on time. The role is heavily AI-augmented, and you're measured on two things — the fellow and mentor experience, and whether the team always knows what's going on.

MATS directs tens of millions of dollars toward AI safety research each year, and our read on our own impact is still more qualitative than it should be. As Impact Analyst you'll own the fix: a reliable pipeline of fellow outcome data, and the analyses built on it that tell us what the marginal fellow and mentor are worth, which bets are paying off, and how fast we should scale.

Build the home from which fellows can launch impactful contributions to AI Safety. Support fellows' personal development and build an inclusive and flourishing community. 

Build MATS's Finance function from the ground up: create the systems, processes, and team that let a 65-person AI safety organization double in size and thrive.

MATS Research is looking for a sharp, discreet Executive Assistant to support our Co-founders at a fast-growing AI safety research nonprofit. You'll manage complex calendars, coordinate travel between our Berkeley and London offices, and prepare materials, freeing up leadership to focus on strategy and fundraising.

Be the operational backbone for three senior leaders at a fast-growing AI safety nonprofit: own their time, track their commitments, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks across a transatlantic team.

Help a fast-scaling AI safety research nonprofit run smoothly, and build broad operations expertise across many areas while you do it.