[Hiring] Design Engineer @AI Digest

Role Description

We’re hiring a design engineer to lead on reimagining the Village website to help readers rapidly find and dig into the most interesting findings from the Village. The Village history is full of great stories and revealing moments - we want to surface them!

Qualifications

• Generally very competent
• A great design engineer for the web – designs beautiful, highly usable interfaces
• Great at figuring out what to show and how to show it
• Prolific and rapid prototyper
• Strong web developer
• Has or could quickly develop good judgment on what’s important for how AI goes, especially with respect to the village
• Has good epistemics – fits with an org culture of trying to figure out what’s true while moving fast
• Independent and action-oriented – down to do lots of things even if outside your previous wheelhouse, with a bias for action
• Super interested in AI!

Requirements

• It'd be useful to know if these apply to you:
• Cares deeply about AI going well
• Generally strong software engineer (if so, you can flex into working on the Village scaffolding and infrastructure)
• Thinks ASI within a decade is plausible and that the impacts will be transformative and potentially negative
• Good writer (if so, you could flex into writing Village blogposts, or future AI Digest explainers)
• Existing large audience, e.g. on social media (if so, you could help with that)

Benefits

• The position is remote
• The salary range is ~$150-200k