“80,000 Hours is hiring a lot right now — come join us!” by 80000_Hours

“80,000 Hours is hiring a lot right now — come join us!” by 80000_Hours

From EA Forum Podcast (All audio) by EA Forum Team

May 8, 2026 · 8 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the current job openings at 80,000 Hours and encourages listeners to apply or refer potential candidates.

This forum post was first drafted using an LLM to summarise information from human-written job postings and was then edited/adjusted by hiring managers. The primary author/coordinator is Arden Koehler. Overview 80,000 Hours has eight open positions across our advising, operations, video, and web teams, plus three expressions of interest open for video and operations roles. We're trying to scale up significantly this year — staff capacity is one of our biggest bottlenecks, and we'd love to hire more people who care about helping make advanced AI go well for the world. We recently grew to 50 staff and plan to grow more. If you've ever wanted to work at 80,000 Hours, now is a good time to apply. Application deadlines fall between May 25 and June 7, 2026. If you don’t see a role here that interests you, check back on our website later – there will be more posted soon, including a role in our marketing team. And if you're not interested in applying but you know someone who might be a great fit, we'd love referrals! Email recruiting@80000hours.org and indicate that it's a referral and the role the referral is for in the subject line. If we hire…

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