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This job posting doubles as an overview of Catalyze Impact's incubation model for AI safety organizations, useful for understanding field-building infrastructure efforts within the EA/AI safety ecosystem.
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Catalyze Impact is a nonprofit incubator addressing organizational bottlenecks in the AI safety ecosystem by connecting founders with co-founders, mentors, and funding. Their pilot program incubated 11 organizations from 200+ applicants, with participants reporting an average 11-month acceleration in progress. They are hiring two key roles to scale their operations.
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- •Pilot program successfully incubated 11 AI safety organizations selected from over 200 applicants, demonstrating strong demand for structured support.
- •Participants reported an average acceleration of 11 months in organizational progress, suggesting meaningful impact from incubation support.
- •Hiring for Incubation Program Lead and Talent Lead roles ($75k-$150k), both based preferably in the Bay Area.
- •Focuses on a critical ecosystem bottleneck: matching talented AI safety founders with co-founders, mentors, and funding networks.
- •Early-stage organization offering staff significant influence over its strategic direction and program design.
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# Catalyze is Hiring: AI Safety Incubation Program Lead & Talent Lead
By Catalyze Impact, Alexandra Bos, Mick
Published: 2025-09-16
[Catalyze Impact](https://catalyze-impact.org) is a nonprofit with the mission to incubate the next generation of critical AI safety & security organizations. Through our programs, we connect talented founders with top-notch co-founders, industry experts, and our [funding networks](https://www.catalyze-impact.org/funding-network).
We’re hiring for two pivotal roles as we scale up our work:
* **Incubation Program Lead**: Lead the management, execution and scaling of Catalyze Impact's flagship AI safety incubation programs. [Read more here](https://www.catalyze-impact.org/careers#comp-mf59v5kg1).
* **Talent Lead:** Lead the identification and selection of exceptional founders for Catalyze Impact’s AI safety incubation work. [Read more here](https://www.catalyze-impact.org/careers#comp-mf5awi1p).
Both positions are full-time, starting ideally around **early November 2025**. Applications close **5 October 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)**.
[Apply here](https://airtable.com/appYjhygfeeCp4znr/pagqCRKsBNuDUetP8/form), or [send us your recommendations](https://airtable.com/appYjhygfeeCp4znr/pagSuRNXtDkdJwSD0/form).
**About Catalyze Impact**
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AI capabilities are advancing rapidly, and the risks of misaligned or uncontrolled advanced AI are increasingly highlighted by researchers and industry leaders. The AI safety ecosystem, however, remains critically underdeveloped for this challenge. While funding exists, we aim to resolve this key bottleneck: not enough talented founders are building the AI safety organizations we urgently need.
We address this by making it easier for talented AI safety-focused entrepreneurs to decide on a highly impactful organization direction, and quickly get access to the network of co-founders, expert mentors, and funders that they need to make their organization a success.
Our pilot program received over 200 applicants and [incubated 11 organizations](https://www.catalyze-impact.org/post/introducing-11-new-ai-safety-organizations-catalyze-incubation-program-cohort-winter-2024-25), with participants reporting the program either enabled the founding of their organization or accelerated their progress by an average of 11 months. These organizations now work on challenges from AI control tooling to hardware security. Starting in 2026, we will run multiple programs per year, each targeting critical gaps in the AI safety ecosystem.
Our [Winter 2024/2025 cohort](https://www.catalyze-impact.org/post/introducing-11-new-ai-safety-organizations-catalyze-incubation-program-cohort-winter-2024-25)
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