Cosmos founder Brendan McCord hires Chief of Staff across institute and Oxford roles
chalmermagne · x · 2026-10-28
Brendan McCord Is Hiring a Chief of Staff
Cosmos Institute founder Brendan McCord (who founded and sold two AI companies) is publicly hiring a Chief of Staff to run his entire portfolio:
- Cosmos Institute: research with fellows from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and academia
- 200+ grants issued to build fast prototypes
- A major in-person bet on higher education launching in 2027
- Co-teaches a graduate seminar on philosophy and AI at Oxford, supporting the HAI Lab
The full JD is in a linked Google Doc.
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