[Hiring] Research Scientist @AI Digest

Role Description

We're hiring a research scientist to lead on discovering interesting and important findings about AI capabilities and proclivities, for example using our >1 year of AI Village data and infrastructure to rapidly spin up new villages and environments to test hypotheses.

Qualifications

• Generally very competent
• A great LLM researcher – strong taste for sniffing out interesting and important questions, can quickly design and execute great analyses and experiments, and gets to the bottom of things
• 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. Once you settle in, you'll likely work fairly independently and be leading your own research efforts
• Super interested in AI!

Requirements

• Cares deeply about AI going well
• Good at managing researchers (if so, you could manage early career researchers via programs like MATS)
• 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)
• Strong software engineer (if so, you can flex into working on the Village scaffolding and infrastructure)
• Existing large audience, e.g. on social media (if so, you could help with that)

Benefits

• Remote position
• Salary range: ~$150-200k