Jobs at Constellation Institute

Leads and develops a team of 5–10 Operations Coordinators supporting researchers, programs, visitors, events, onboarding, and offboarding. Owns hiring, training, performance management, capacity planning, scheduling, request prioritization, quality standards, and process improvement. Partners cross-functionally to align operations with organizational priorities and build a sustainable coordinator program. This is a full-time, in-person Berkeley role with occasional evening work.

Coordinates program analysis, user research, impact measurement, community experience, membership evaluation, events, communications, and special projects. The role combines quantitative analysis and strategic problem-solving with hands-on support for members, researchers, and high-profile technical and policymaker events. It is full-time and on-site in Berkeley.

Coordinates programs focused on improving member and community experiences. Responsibilities include conducting user research, gathering feedback, identifying needs, designing and iterating program improvements, supporting membership evaluation and onboarding, coordinating events, maintaining website content, and assisting with communications. The role partners with operations to implement enhancements and requires strong organization, communication, prioritization, initiative, and interest in AI safety.

General Counsel roles supporting AI safety organizations with fast-paced, risk-calibrated legal advice. Responsibilities may involve nonprofit structures, frontier AI contracts, export controls, FARA, compute agreements, and 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) boundaries. Applicants should demonstrate strong legal judgment, comfort with ambiguity, interest in AI safety organizations, and authorization to practice law in their intended location. Most roles require a US-barred attorney, and candidates with at least five years of legal practice are favored.

Lead and integrate IT, security, facilities, and catering for Constellation’s Berkeley research center. Set strategy, budgets, KPIs, and risk/compliance standards; manage ~11–15 staff with four direct reports; drive cross-domain coordination, incident response, and continuous operational improvement to enable world-class AI safety research.

Provides administrative, customer, site, and event support at an in-person AI safety research center. Responsibilities include welcoming visitors, managing support requests, maintaining records, reserving rooms, preparing workspaces, troubleshooting office issues, ordering supplies, and assisting with events. The role is designed to develop broad operations skills and requires strong organization, communication, flexibility, attention to detail, and comfort working onsite with occasional evening and weekend responsibilities.

Coordinates core People Operations, including onboarding, offboarding, HRIS and benefits administration, employment compliance, documentation, recruiting logistics, ATS maintenance, immigration case tracking, and contract administration. The role requires meticulous organization, discretion with sensitive information, strong communication, reliable follow-through, and the ability to build processes. It is full-time and on-site in Berkeley, California.

Leads a business operations team and owns nonprofit finance and accounting activities, including month-end close, budgeting, financial reporting, audits, 990 filings, banking, cash-flow forecasting, grant management, and policy development. Partners with program and event teams, supports external organizations, manages vendors, and delivers operational projects. The role requires nonprofit finance leadership, team supervision, forecasting, accounting systems expertise, and strong judgment in a fast-moving environment.

Supports the full employee lifecycle through onboarding and offboarding, HRIS maintenance, benefits administration, compliance documentation, policy support, immigration coordination, and recruiting operations. The role manages detailed People Ops processes, coordinates with legal and immigration counsel, maintains ATS data, supports candidate scheduling, and improves workflows as the organization scales. It is full-time and on-site in Berkeley, California.

Provide hands-on IT support for staff, researchers, and visitors. Responsibilities include ticket resolution, hardware and software troubleshooting, account support, device setup, inventory management, onboarding and offboarding, Google Workspace administration, physical access control, camera monitoring, event support, office reservations, and documentation. The role also assists with office operations and may require evening or weekend onsite coverage for events or urgent issues.

Join Constellation's Programs team to design and run convenings, incubators, fellowships, and talent-mobilization efforts that connect AI safety researchers, accelerate ideas, and place people into high-impact roles. Work on event production, program design, community building, and participant matching within an on-site Berkeley workspace.

Expression of interest to join Constellation's Operations team supporting Business Ops, People Ops, Program Ops, and Site Ops. Full-time, on-site role in Berkeley executing operational initiatives, enabling teams, and managing finance/legal, HR/talent, network/data, facilities/security/IT, and catering. Rolling review of applicants.