AI Safety Hungary is hiring an Operations Lead - apply by January 18th!

By Milan_A, AIS Hungary @ 2026-01-02T13:09 (+11)

Applications open! The (extended) submission deadline is 2026 January 18th (Sunday), 23:59 CET.

Please note that EA Hungary is also hiring for an Operations Lead role. If you are interested in both, we recommend preparing the two applications in parallel, as some questions overlap.

Role Summary

AI Safety Hungary is currently run by its director, Milán Alexy, advised by Lili Csabai (operations support), Gergő Gáspár (founder), and Oscar Zollmann Thomas (strategy advisor). We are looking for a highly driven Operations Lead who ensures our current programs run smoothly and facilitates the implementation of new, impactful projects in the future.

As an Operations Lead, you would oversee all main processes of AIS Hungary, lead the development and coordination of our courses, manage our CRM, and deliver our mailings, including our monthly newsletter.

Salary: 12-26 USD/hour (pre-tax) depending on experience level
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Workload: 15-30 hours/week

AI Safety Hungary’s mission

Our goal is to support talented students and professionals in building careers in AI safety. The main pillars of our local activity are running technical and policy courses, providing 1-on-1 career advice, and sharing upcoming opportunities and events on our mailing list.

We also aim to make an impact by improving the global field-building infrastructure. Over the past 2 years, staff members from AI Safety Hungary participated in multiple international projects, two of which are Amplify, a marketing organisation providing support to EA/AIS field-builders (read more here), and AI Safety Collab, a project to contribute to AI safety field-builders’ operations efforts through central course coordination.

We’re constantly looking for new impactful projects to join or launch, and we expect incoming staff to be aligned with this mission.

Find more on EA and AI Safety Hungary’s Theory of Change here.

Key Responsibilities

• Course coordination
  • Spearhead our international programs for students and professionals, delivering high-quality courses.
  • Streamline workflows (e.g., automating the evaluation of applications).
  • Effectively communicate with stakeholders (such as local organisers, program participants, and facilitators) in our programs.
  • The range of responsibilities includes: evaluating applications, group assignments, supporting course mentors, etc.
• Monthly newsletter, other communications
  • Produce and deliver the monthly AIS Hungary newsletter
  • Share updates with our mailing list on highlighted events and opportunities
  • Regularly post on our social media channels about important news, events, and opportunities
• Data management, workflow development
  • Manage our organisation's database of course participants
  • Monitor KPIs and generate impact evaluation reports
• Other responsibilities may include
  • Running local events in Budapest
  • Supporting volunteers
  • Providing career advice

Required Skills & Qualifications

We’re looking for people who are

• Organised
  • You’re able to keep track of a large number of tasks at once, rarely drop balls, and follow through on your commitments.
• Clear communicators
  • Your communication is straightforward, you demonstrate a high level of reasoning transparency, and you enable others to easily identify the most critical aspects of your communications.
• Good at making decisions under uncertainty
  • You’re able to weigh up tradeoffs between competing responsibilities and make real-world decisions under uncertainty.
• Flexible
  • You’re excited about working on a variety of projects and are motivated to do what’s most valuable to push AIS Hungary’s mission forward.
• Comfortable in owning our projects and working on improving them
  • You will be responsible not only for successfully implementing the projects, but also for developing improvements to make them more effective over time.
• Have solid contextual knowledge of AI safety
  • You have a good understanding of core concepts (at least equivalent to having done an introductory course), and you are knowledgeable about the main AIS subfields and the organisations working on them

Preferred qualifications (these are not required but are an advantage):

• Experience in operations work
• Experience in project and/or program management
  • Work history, certifications, etc.

Core values

At AIS Hungary, we apply the following values to our day-to-day work. We are not perfect, but we consistently take steps to improve.

• Commitment to others
  • We take the well-being of others very seriously and are willing to take personal action to benefit others. The people who work at AIS Hungary are driven to have a positive impact on the world.
• Scientific Mindset
  • We strive to base our actions on the best available evidence and reasoning. We recognize how difficult this is and therefore try to avoid overconfidence, seek out informed critiques of our own views, embrace intellectual humility, be open to new ideas, and take alternative points of view seriously.
• Openness
  • If good arguments or evidence show that our current plans are not the best ways to achieve our goals, we will change our beliefs and actions.
• Integrity
  • Because we believe that trust, cooperation, and accurate information are essential to performing valuable work, we strive to be honest and transparent in both our internal and external communications. We also value AIS Hungary's reputation and recognize that our actions reflect on it.
• Collaborative Spirit
  • We maintain a friendly, open, and welcoming environment in which many different approaches can flourish and a wide range of perspectives can be evaluated on their merits. To encourage collaboration between people with widely varying circumstances and ways of thinking, we treat people of different worldviews, values, backgrounds, and identities kindly and respectfully.

Paths to grow

We don't just see this role as an end in itself. A large fraction of the value over time will come from investing in your career and from founding new organizations or joining more established ones. The skills you can build here may be applied in a variety of future roles, such as

• Leadership and Project Management,
• Communications and Marketing,
• Community- and Field-Building,
• etc.

Contract

• Start: Flexible
• Compensation (entry-level): 12-16 USD/hour (pre-tax)
  • Depending on the candidate’s qualifications and work experience, we may offer a higher rate than this, up to 26 USD
• Commitment: 15-30 hours per week
• Vacation: 25 days of paid vacation per year
• Contract period: ~5 months (following a 2-month trial period), renewable based on performance and organisational funding

Selection process

We expect to have 3 to 5 rounds, depending on the applicant pool. The first round is this application form - the final deadline to submit your application is 2026 January 18th (Sunday) 23:59 CET.

In the following stages, candidates can expect to participate in interviews and/or work tests.

Contact

If you have any questions about the selection process, please reach out to info[at]aishungary.com