Constellation Institute

We've added 105 new roles to our job board since last week 💡 This includes positions at: • METR • Apollo Research • AI Digest • Constellation Institute Check out all 910 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

Most of my recruiter network has never placed a candidate in AI safety. I'd like to change that. I'm at Constellation Institute, a field-builder working at the intersection of emerging technology and existential risk. We run convenings, incubate organizations, and help mobilize the talent that this field desperately needs. The field is growing and the stakes are not abstract: AI capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to govern them, align them, or even fully understand them. One of the biggest bottlenecks to closing that gap is recruiting capacity itself. Before you can grow a field, you need people who know how to find, assess, and close the right talent. That gap affects everything i.e. research velocity, institutional capacity, the field's ability to move at the pace the moment demands. If you're an experienced recruiter, there are real ways to engage: - Full-time embedded roles across the ecosystem - Contract or fractional work - Fellowships to learn the field and contribute through a structured program The roles span the full range of what it takes to build a field: programs, operations, technical and research, strategy and policy, and senior leaders and founders. Many organizations in this ecosystem are growing their teams for the first time and would benefit as much from experienced recruiting guidance as from hands-on support. You don't need to already know much about AI safety. The best fits tend to be people who bring rigor, comfort with ambiguity, and a desire to do work that's genuinely important. The field is small enough, and the need urgent enough, that the right people joining now could shape how the whole ecosystem develops. If any of this resonates — drop a comment or send me a DM. ✉️

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. There are more good policy and technical ideas ready for implementation than there is coordination ability and political will to implement them. The funding landscape is expected to expand over the next few years, but without the people to deploy that capital effectively, it stays inert. The ecosystem has a lot of people who are great at thinking about ideas. We need more people who are great at thinking about people and projects. 𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺, 𝗞𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 Constellation Institute 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆: a 15-30 person, 3-month program focused on training, upskilling, credentialing, and placing generalists in AI safety. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: residents work out of Constellation with mentorship from successful generalists at organizations like Redwood Research, METR, RAND, AI Futures Project, FAR.AI, Forethought In the first few weeks, residents write and refine their own project pitches while meeting the Constellation network and building context in the field. They then execute roughly 3-month projects, individually or in groups. 𝗧𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 (𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲): • $6k monthly stipend (plus housing and travel covered) • Generous project budgets to execute on ambitious ideas • Access to the Constellation network and office space • Seminars, 1:1s, and deep dives into current technical and policy work • The possibility to extend for an additional 3 months • Placement support into full-time roles at impactful organizations for those who want it If you've been looking for a way into AI safety that isn't "be a researcher," this is it! ⏰𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟳. 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀👇

Constellation is hiring! If you know someone looking for a high-impact position where they can advance AI safety and security, please share our careers page. We currently have roles open for program/research management, operations, talent, and IT: https://lnkd.in/g7S7CXWT

We have some exciting news to share: Constellation Institute, alongside Kairos, is launching the Generator Residency! Generator is a new program that brings 15-30 residents to Constellation for the summer to work on fieldbuilding and infrastructure projects for AI safety. How it works: • Residents spend the first few weeks writing project pitches, meeting the Constellation network, and building context on the field. • They spend the rest of the program executing projects (solo or in groups), supported by seminars, 1:1s with generalists at orgs like Redwood Research, METR, and AI Futures Project, and deep dives into current technical and policy work. • During and after the program, we help residents find roles at impactful orgs, spin their projects into new organizations, or get their work acquired by existing ones. Learn more about the Generator Residency: https://lnkd.in/gqBXHq4N Apply here by April 27, 2026: https://lnkd.in/gZFy44p6

🚀 Applications are now open for Constellation Institute's Astra Fellowship! Astra is a fully funded, 5-month fellowship at our Berkeley research institute, where 300+ AI safety professionals work every week. Fellows pair with mentors across empirical AI safety research, strategy, and governance. 📅 Applications close May 3rd (cohort begins September 2026) 📖 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5Z4NFRq We're halfway through our current cohort and the results are already exceeding expectations: 🔹 A hackathon side-project for 10 fellows that led to one of the first independent safety audits of a frontier open-weight model 🔹 Fellows clearing entire backlogs for the field's largest grantmaker and getting early offers to join their team 🔹 Astra fellows briefing senior international policymakers on their research 🔹 Strategy fellows publishing tone-setting pieces on where AI is going One thing that keeps standing out: Constellation's in-person network has been deeply valuable for fellows directing their thinking about where the world with increasingly advanced AI is headed. That's making Astra uniquely well-placed to train up strategy talent ahead of mass research automation. We're also partnering with OpenAI to support the new OpenAI Safety Fellowship. OpenAI fellows will be hosted at Constellation alongside Astra Fellows, working on external safety and alignment projects. What Astra offers: 📍 5 months, in-person at Constellation (Berkeley, CA), fully funded 💰 Stipend + ~$15k/mo in compute expenses 🎯 Job placement with mentors or support finding roles elsewhere in AI safety 🌱 Incubation support if you want to start your own org Over 80% of our first cohort now work full-time in AI safety - at Redwood, METR, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, CAISI, and more. With several hires before the halfway point, the current cohort is on track to match or beat that. Prior AI safety experience is NOT required. If you're motivated to reduce risk from advanced AI and bring technical or domain expertise, we want to hear from you. 📅 Applications close May 3rd (cohort begins September 2026) 📖 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5Z4NFRq P.S. If you applied before and weren't accepted, we encourage you to apply again - especially if you've done relevant work in the meantime. And if you're wondering what happened to the fieldbuilding stream - we'll have news on that soon 👀

Two days left until Astra applications close! ✨ The final application deadline to be considered for the Astra Fellowship is this Friday, October 10. We would love for you or anyone amazing you know to apply: https://lnkd.in/gJBsDewH We’re excited to receive your applications—and to see the impact we'll make together with Astra 2026! https://lnkd.in/gpRR9ncW