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About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional writer to help turn promising AI alignment research ideas into compelling, fundable proposals. This role is primarily focused on writing and proposal development, rather than fundraising relationships or business development. You'll work from research papers, conversations, rough project concepts, and funder requirements to independently develop clear, rigorous, persuasive grant proposals.
Responsibilities
- Draft and refine grant proposals, concept notes, LOIs, and related funder materials.
- Turn early-stage or ambiguous research ideas into coherent proposals with clear objectives, methods, milestones, and rationale.
- Translate technical AI alignment research into language that is accurate, accessible, and compelling to funders.
- Tailor proposals to specific funder priorities and requirements.
- Work with researchers and internal stakeholders while minimizing the amount of researcher time required.
- Use AI tools effectively in the writing process while maintaining a very high bar for accuracy, judgment, and final quality.
Requirements
- Exceptional writer and editor with unusually high standards for their own work.
- Has enough technical fluency to read AI/ML research papers and understand the core ideas.
- Can take incomplete or ambiguous information and independently create structure and clarity.
- Has strong judgment about what can reasonably be claimed and how to communicate uncertainty without weakening a proposal.
- Comfortable iterating quickly and incorporating feedback.
- You do not need to be an AI researcher or someone who has done grant writing in the past.
- We're more interested in someone who combines excellent writing, intellectual rigor, technical comprehension, and the ability to turn rough ideas into polished proposals.
Skills
- Writing
- Editing
- Technical fluency
- AI/ML research comprehension
- Independent creation of structure and clarity
- Strong judgment
- Effective communication
- Iterative feedback incorporation
- Grant writing (nice to have)
- Technical writing (nice to have)
- Research (nice to have)
- AI safety (nice to have)
Location
- Remote
- LA (optional)
- Berkeley (optional)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Contractor
Experience Level
- Depending on experience
Salary/Compensations
- Full-time: $110,000–$150,000
- Part-time: Compensation prorated based on full-time range
- Contractor: Approximately $65–$100/hour
About the Company
- The AI Alignment Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that does hands-on technical AI alignment research and funds neglected approaches that larger labs and funders overlook.
- We work closely with AE Studio, government partners, and the AI safety community.
- Very little genuine alignment research happens anywhere.
- We are trying to change that, and we need to scale our funding to maximize our impact.