Senior AI Opportunity Scout

The OpenAI Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The OpenAI Foundation is seeking a senior role focused on scouting and diligence to surface socially valuable uses of AI across research, civil society, government, and philanthropy. You will assess technical credibility, potential impact, and feasibility, prioritizing opportunities for funding, partnerships, prototypes, or incubation.

You will build trusted relationships with researchers, nonprofit leaders, and field experts, and translate insights into concrete recommendations.

Qualifications

• Senior opportunity-scouting and diligence role across AI research, builders, civil society, government, philanthropy, and communities.

Responsibilities

• Build and nurture a high-quality opportunity pipeline with researchers, engineers, nonprofit leaders, and public servants.
• Track frontier AI capabilities and identify opportunities with real social impact.
• Define user/problem/intervention/value in structured theses for evaluation and funding.
• Conduct technical and strategic diligence covering model fit, data needs, safety, cost, and scale.

Skills

Deep AI judgment

Technical product sense

Portfolio judgment

Rigorous evaluation

Cross-stakeholder communication

Adaptability across domains

Broad collaboration

Job description

The OpenAI Foundation is seeking a senior role focused on scouting and diligence to surface socially valuable uses of AI across research, civil society, government, and philanthropy. You will assess technical credibility, potential impact, and feasibility, prioritizing opportunities for funding, partnerships, prototypes, or incubation.

You will build trusted relationships with researchers, nonprofit leaders, and field experts, and translate insights into concrete recommendations.