Multiple roles in AI x Global Health and Wellbeing

Coefficient Giving is scaling its giving significantly over the next few years, and we are excited to build a new team to make grants at the intersection of AI and global health and wellbeing.

We think AI progress will reshape health and economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) — possibly compressing decades of medical progress into years, and possibly threatening the growth pathways that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. To help ensure AI’s benefits reach the people who need them most, we are hiring Associate Program Officers and Research Fellows to join our AI x Global Health & Wellbeing (GHW) team. These are high-leverage roles where whoever we hire will help decide what we fund in this space.

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $7 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. It's also a pivotal moment for Coefficient Giving: We gave around $1 billion last year, and are on track to more than double our giving this year. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more.

We’re proud of our track record:

• Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.

• We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally.

• We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes in New York, and SB 79 in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.

• We jump-started the field of AI safety and security and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria.

The GHW team makes grants across scientific research, policy advocacy, and global health and development to serve our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We prioritize grants with the potential to improve health outcomes and economic wellbeing, with most of our work focused on people living in LMICs.

The AIxGHW team is new, and it sits within our Cause Prioritization team. Our job is to set the strategy for CG’s work at this intersection, conduct research to figure out which approaches are most promising, and make up to $100 million in cost-effective grants in the next year. Our grantmaking falls into two broad categories:

• Mitigating noncatastrophic but serious risks to global health and wellbeing from transformative AI.

• Ensuring that new AI-enabled solutions to improve health and economic outcomes globally get built and scaled effectively.

Here are some illustrative projects we would be excited to fund:

We're looking for people with at least three years of relevant professional experience (or the equivalent in academia) who are excited to apply research and analysis to high-stakes decisions.

We're open to a wide range of experience levels. Some of our best hires have come in with three or four years of experience; others have had over a decade. We care more about the quality of your thinking and your aptitude for the responsibilities described above than the number of years you have worked. There is room to grow with strong performance.

We expect all our staff to put our mission first to help us realize our ambitious goals for impact, and to model our operating values of ownership, openness, calibration, and inclusiveness.

You may be a great fit for this role if you have:

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  The baseline compensation for the Research Fellow and Associate Program Officer roles is $204,500, which would be distributed as a base salary of $180,000 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.

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    These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C. and are willing to work from our local office approximately two days per week or more.

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    There would also be an adjustment upwards for candidates based in New York who are willing to work from our coworking hub at least one day per week.