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Among the best in the world at what they do17 roles
This tier is about the solution itself. We are fairly confident these organisations are among the best in the world in their field — vetted by GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators, Founders Pledge or The Life You Can Save, or featured by 80,000 Hours. Somebody else has already judged that what they do works, so we list every role there that is open to someone in the Netherlands, including support and operations work. Expect fierce competition, and expect remote work or a move.
Multiple roles in AI x Global Health and Wellbeing
Coefficient GivingRemote - GlobalRemote
This new team decides which projects at the intersection of AI and global health receive up to €100 million in grants over the coming year.
Global health and infectious diseaseResearchFinanceMid levelHead of Special Projects
KairosRemoteRemote
In just over two years, Kairos has guided more than 1,200 people into work in AI safety.
AI safetyManagementOperationsSeniorGeneralist (Special Projects)
KairosRemoteRemote
Kairos does not run research itself, but builds the routes towards it: over 1,200 people went through programmes such as SPAR and Pathfinder in two years.
AI safetyOperationsManagementEntry levelGCP Program Manager
KairosRemoteRemote
Whoever invites the speakers and selects the participants for a three-day workshop like this decides, in practice, which students and professionals end up in AI safety and biosecurity — and how well prepared they arrive.
AI safetyOperationsManagementMid levelBusiness Immigration Associate
Coefficient GivingRemote - GlobalRemote
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) has distributed more than $7 billion in grants since 2014, and who they can hire depends on which visas they can get sorted.
Community buildingOperationsLegalMid levelExpression of Interest: Special Projects Associate
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Epoch AI's figures on compute and scaling are cited by policymakers and researchers worldwide; you do not do that research yourself, but make sure a small team can publish more by coordinating experts, licensing data…
AI safetyOperationsResearchEntry levelAssociate Program Officer, Transformative AI Fund
Centre for Effective AltruismRemote - GlobalRemote
This fund finances projects on AI risks at the stage where a few tens of thousands of euros is the difference between existing and not existing: amounts between 10,000 and 150,000 dollars, too small for most other…
AI safetyFinanceResearchEntry levelIT and Security Specialist
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Epoch AI's figures on compute and scaling are taken up by policymakers and researchers worldwide; that only works as long as the data and the systems around it cannot be manipulated.
AI safetyInformation securityOperationsMid levelCommunications Specialist
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Epoch AI compiles the figures on compute and the scaling of AI on which journalists and policymakers base their picture.
AI governance and powerCommunications and outreachResearchEntry levelHead of Communications
FAR AIRemote (International)Remote
FAR.AI tests AI models for OpenAI and carries out independent evaluations for, among others, the EU AI Office — but that research only changes something once policymakers and journalists understand it.
AI safetyCommunications and outreachPolicyExecutiveRecruiter / Senior Recruiter
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Epoch AI publishes the figures on computing power and AI trends that policymakers and researchers worldwide fall back on.
AI safetyOperationsCommunications and outreachMid levelSoftware Engineer, Benchmarking
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Debates about AI policy often run aground on the question of what models can really do.
AI safetySoftware engineeringDataMid levelTechnical Project Manager, Red Team
FAR AIRemote (International)Remote
FAR.AI tests advanced AI models for weak spots before they are rolled out widely, and does so on behalf of labs such as OpenAI and governments such as the EU AI Office.
AI safetyManagementOperationsSeniorResearcher / Senior Researcher
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Policymakers and investors base their decisions about AI on figures that someone has to gather — on compute, data centres and what models can actually do.
AI safetyResearchDataMid levelData Scientist
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
Policymakers who want to regulate AI rely on figures they cannot gather themselves — on compute, data centres and the rate at which models are improving.
AI governance and powerDataResearchEntry levelExpression of Interest
Epoch AIRemoteRemote
When regulators and AI labs want to know how fast models are growing, they reach for Epoch's figures — their public databases and trend analyses are the factual basis under many policymakers' decisions about AI.
AI governance and powerResearchDataEntry levelExpressions of Interest
Future of Life InstituteRemoteRemote
The Future of Life Institute does not work on a single project but on the rules of the game: open letters, policy work in Brussels and Washington, and grants that determine which research into AI risks happens at all.
Global catastrophic risksPolicyManagementEntry level
Roles with leverage, here in the Netherlands10 roles
This tier is about leverage. Most of these employers — ministries, regulators, universities, banks — would not say they work on one of the world’s largest problems, and nobody has vetted them as a whole. What we look for is different: roles that let you point more at the problem than your own hours. That might be money, or rules that bind a whole sector, or the work of dozens of other people, or an idea that is free to copy afterwards. A credit analyst at an agricultural lender can matter more than a programme officer at a charity. That judgement is ours, made role by role, and we always write down the reason. Competition here is usually a good deal lighter.
sr AI adviseur onvolkomenheden (620804) DS/F&C
Ministerie van DefensieDen HaagOn site in the Netherlands
Defensie, the Dutch defence ministry, wants to use AI to tackle shortcomings in its financial operations, and in this role you help decide where that is and isn't sensible — with 74,000 employees, such a choice carries…
Global catastrophic risksPolicyDataSeniorDutch requiredDutch nationality requiredData Scientist
Ministerie van Buitenlandse ZakenSchedeldoekshaven 101 te Den HaagOn site in the Netherlands
Buitenlandse Zaken, the Dutch foreign ministry, allocates the Netherlands' entire development cooperation budget.
Development finance and aid policyDataSoftware engineeringMid levelDutch requiredSenior adviseur Gemeenschappelijk landbouw beleid (GLB)
Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA)UtrechtOn site in the Netherlands
Rules on paper only change anything for animals once supervision enforces them in practice.
Animal law and enforcementPolicyManagementSeniorDutch requiredSenior technisch specialist Cybersecurity en Standaardisatie
Rijksinspectie Digitale InfrastructuurAmersfoortDutch employer, flexible
Whoever helps write European standards for cyber-secure devices sets the requirements that thousands of manufacturers will follow years later — and those requirements only become workable if someone at the table truly…
AI governance and powerPolicyInformation securitySeniorDutch requiredCoördinator Toezicht
Rijksinspectie Digitale InfrastructuurAmersfoortOn site in the Netherlands
The rules on AI and digital resilience are on paper; how they will actually be enforced is being worked out now at regulators such as the RDI.
AI governance and powerManagementOperationsMid levelDutch requiredStrategisch beleidsadviseur (gedrags)economie
Ministerie van Economische Zaken en KlimaatDen HaagOn site in the Netherlands
The Centraal Strategisch Cluster advises the senior civil service and political leadership on digitalisation, AI and the energy transition: a small team for a portfolio without a minister of its own.
Democratic institutionsPolicyResearchMid levelDutch requiredMedior Toezichthouder Gegevensbescherming
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en KoninkrijksrelatiesDen HaagOn site in the Netherlands
Dutch central government is digitalising faster than its safeguards are keeping up.
Democratic institutionsPolicyLegalMid levelDutch requiredSenior Data Analist
Ministerie van Buitenlandse ZakenSchedeldoekshaven 101 te Den HaagOn site in the Netherlands
Buitenlandse Zaken, the Dutch foreign ministry, distributes the entire Dutch aid budget, and directorates make decisions based on the figures this team supplies.
Development finance and aid policyDataPolicySeniorDutch requiredJuridisch Inspecteur
Rijksinspectie Digitale InfrastructuurAmersfoortDutch employer, flexible
Laws such as NIS2 are full of open standards — what exactly a "duty of care" means only becomes clear once a regulator fills it in.
AI governance and powerLegalPolicySeniorDutch requiredDirecteur Market Development a.i. (één jaar)
Invest-NLAmsterdamOn site in the Netherlands
Invest-NL has already put some €13 million into alternative protein startups and fills precisely the gap in scale-up capital that two Dutch companies recently went under on.
Protein transition policyManagementFinanceExecutiveDutch required
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