Join the CCAI Core Team!

CCAI is looking for new core team members to play leading roles in the organization’s ongoing activities. Core team members are expected to dedicate 5-10 hours of volunteer time per week and work closely with other members of the organization to advance CCAI’s activities and operations. Most core team members have a background in either machine learning or areas relevant to climate change (such as energy, transportation, climate science, etc.), and a strong interest in both topics.

To be considered for a core team role, we require the following:

  1. Mission alignment: Core team members must be passionate about catalyzing impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning, per our mission and goals.
  2. Intersectional knowledge of AI and climate change: Core team members need to be able to apply their knowledge and judgment to ensure that the activities and content are scientifically sound, mission-aligned, and high quality.
  3. Curiosity: Working with CCAI provides the opportunity to learn about many different areas related to climate change and AI. To shape initiatives across a large umbrella of topics at this intersection, core team members are expected to demonstrate eagerness to learn about AI and climate change topics beyond their niche areas of expertise, and gain a higher-level view of the bigger picture of AI-for-climate more broadly.
  4. Community orientation and ethics: Core team members serve a diverse global community of stakeholders, which requires cognizance in shaping CCAI’s activities to be broadly beneficial, inclusive, and consistent with principles of ethics and equity.
  5. Leadership, proactiveness, and responsibility: Core team members scope, shape, and execute activities. It is essential for core team members to be able to define goals and take responsibility for ensuring that they get achieved. This includes stepping up in cases where some aspects of execution may not be neatly covered by existing systems or existing roles, and taking on a fair share of less interesting or visible tasks in addition to tasks that are “flashy.”
  6. Time commitment: Core team members are expected to dedicate 5-10 hours of volunteer time per week, including conference calls and synchronous working time, and be responsive on Slack. This includes flexibility to coordinate across multiple time zones.
  7. Attention to detail: Core team members are mindful of the work that they carry out, which helps CCAI ensure high quality in its activities.
  8. Team-orientedness: Team members must be able to work productively and collaboratively as part of a close-knit team, commit to learning from others and sharing learnings with others, be there for other team members, and otherwise foster a collegial and team-oriented environment.
  9. Comfort working in a digital environment: CCAI’s team is based across the world, and communicates primarily using Slack, G-Suite tools, and video conferencing tools. While we are happy to onboard newcomers to the particular technologies we use, core team members must in general be comfortable working and collaborating in a primarily digital environment.
  10. Wearing both role and organizational hats: In addition to executing on the direct responsibilities of their role, core team members are expected to contribute to the well-being of the organization as a whole, both via inputs to other ongoing activities (e.g., by contributing resources or reviewing outputs) and by contributing to the sustainability of CCAI’s operations (e.g., by creating systems, documenting learnings, onboarding other team members, and contributing to impact assessment). No one individual alone holds all relevant knowledge on AI and climate change, which requires collective engagement to shape and improve CCAI’s activities and resources.

Climate change is a global problem that requires global thinking. We accept applications from anywhere in the world, and do not require a specific academic degree. While CCAI organizes in-person events from time to time, all of the core work is done remotely.

CCAI is a fast-moving and fun environment to help facilitate meaningful and immediate climate action with machine learning. Working with CCAI will provide you with opportunities to acquire new skills, expand your network, and curate knowledge. We are an interdisciplinary and international team and believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity are not only fundamental to the organization but also to progress in addressing climate change as a whole.

Open Roles

Below is a list of roles for which CCAI is currently recruiting. Core team members are expected to hold two roles in tandem. Please apply by filling out this form and indicate at least two roles you would be interested in taking on. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis until roles are filled.

Apply here to join CCAI Core Team!

Applicants should be available to start in January 2026, with availability for interviews between mid-November and mid-December 2025.

Role Descriptions

Blog

CCAI is looking for an editor and contributor for the CCAI Blog, which provides a platform for CCAI and community members to publish articles on topics at the intersection of machine learning and climate change. We are seeking a team member to ensure that the blog’s content and strategy effectively advance CCAI’s mission, goals, and overall communication objectives. This includes developing a content strategy and editorial standards, developing systems for internal and external information-gathering, soliciting posts from external authors, content review and editing, writing posts, and identifying ways to best serve and grow the blog audience.

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Community Platform

CCAI is looking for a Community Manager to help foster and manage the growth of the CCAI Community Platform. The Community Platform is a CCAI-specific social media platform hosted on the Circle App and offers members a diverse community and content including job postings, open discussions, and event announcements. Role-related tasks include content moderation, sharing updates about CCAI activities, handling technical platform issues, content curation, fostering engagement and building connections between community members, and working to further expand and serve the community (often in collaboration with other parts of CCAI, such as event organizing teams).

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion

CCAI is seeking core team members to support organizational culture and impact assessment, in order to ensure CCAI’s work and activities are aligned with our mission, goals, and core values. This role focuses on analyzing considerations of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within CCAI’s organizational operations, strategy, and execution of activities, as well as providing materials, resources, and recommendations to best shape CCAI’s work in line with DEI considerations.

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In-person Summer School educational content

CCAI organizes an in-person Summer School, a selective in-person program bringing together a diverse cohort of ~30-50 participants for collaborative project-based learning, hands-on mentorship, and leadership workshops (see blog posts for 2023 and 2024 editions). We are looking for team members to work on all content-related aspects of the in-person Summer School, including curriculum development, speaker recruitment, mentorship program development, and participant selection.

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In-person Summer School program coordination

CCAI organizes an in-person Summer School, a selective in-person program bringing together a diverse cohort of ~30-50 participants for collaborative project-based learning, hands-on mentorship, and leadership workshops (see blog posts for 2023 and 2024 editions). We are looking for team members to work on all logistics-related aspects of the in-person Summer School, including mentorship program coordination, participant selection and logistics, and on-site logistics.

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Massive open online course (MOOC) development

CCAI is seeking core team members to work on the creation of a MOOC covering topics relevant to doing work in climate change and machine learning. This is an opportunity to distill the key ideas on climate change and machine learning for dissemination to the wider community. This role will entail designing the curriculum outline and structure, identifying and coordinating instructors, setting standards for lectures and instructional materials, engaging in in-depth revision and review with instructors, identifying and setting up a remote learning management system, scheduling and overseeing test runs and subsequent revisions of various aspects of the course, and ensuring the quality and cohesion of the final course. The role will entail coordination with the virtual Summer School team.

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Media and Publicity

CCAI is recruiting a team member to support media outreach and public relations. As a leading organization at the intersection of AI and climate change, CCAI regularly interacts with journalists and amplifies community voices. Tasks include preparation of a media and publicity strategy, answering and routing media inquiries, preparation of press releases, prospecting leads, and otherwise helping to shape and target our external communication efforts.

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Mentorship Programs

CCAI organizes various events for education, cohort-building, and professional development at the intersection of climate change and AI, and several of them involve mentorship programs. We are looking for someone to work on mentorship programs across workshops, summer schools, and other events, and to ensure consistency in objectives and quality, synchronize mentor recruitment, and manage mentor-mentee relationships and expectations.

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Multi-stakeholder Matching

We are seeking team members to lead our efforts to launch a new multi-stakeholder matching platform that enables community members to more easily discover relevant people, organizations, and projects, and further enable collaborations and partnerships between community members. Tasks include enhancing the searchability and discoverability of existing content, building information discovery and curation pipelines, developing systems for quality assurance, implementing technical platforms, conducting user testing, and otherwise furthering the objectives of this project.

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Virtual Summer School educational content

CCAI organizes a virtual Summer School, a scalable open-registration virtual program consisting of lectures and hands-on tutorials on AI and climate change (see blog post and program website). We are looking for team members to work on content-related aspects of the virtual Summer School, including learning objectives, curriculum design, lecture development, instructor recruitment, and content review. The role will entail coordination with the virtual Summer School program coordination team and the MOOC development team.

Position-specific requirements:

Virtual Summer School program coordination

CCAI organizes a virtual Summer School, a scalable open-registration virtual program consisting of lectures and hands-on tutorials on AI and climate change (see blog post and program website). We are looking for team members to work on all logistics-related aspects of the virtual Summer School, including managing remote participation of thousands of attendees, hosting multiple weeks of live lectures, enabling active participation remotely, managing communications with participants and instructors, and obtaining sponsorships. The role will entail coordination with the virtual Summer School educational content team.

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Social Media

CCAI is looking for a social media manager to help maintain and expand our presence on various social media platforms. Social media is one of our key communication channels and tools for interacting with the climate change and AI community. Team members in this role will be responsible for managing our existing social media accounts (on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, and YouTube), sharing updates from the organization, amplifying community voices, content creation driving engagement campaigns, and identifying ideas for how to better serve both our current and prospective audiences. You will also be helping us expand to potential new social media platforms, with a particular view towards diversifying the sets of communities with whom CCAI is able to effectively engage on social media.

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Team development

CCAI is seeking core team members to support the organizational culture, collaboration, and effectiveness of a volunteer-driven and fully remote team. This role focuses on developing training and upskilling opportunities to support team members in executing their roles, to promote knowledge sharing and continuity, and to ensure alignment around shared goals.

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Website

CCAI is looking for a team member to help maintain and improve the CCAI Website. CCAI’s website is the main entry point for exploring the different activities, resources, and offerings that CCAI provides, and team members in this role will play a key role in ensuring this information is up-to-date and easily navigable. Tasks include implementation of new pages and data architectures (e.g., for events or resources), maintenance and proactive updates to existing content, development of standards and training for team members to engage in website updates, and strategic engagement to improve the website user experience and content hierarchy to better serve existing and new users.

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