Cross-posted to the EA Forum

The Fund for Alignment Research (FAR) is hiring research engineers and communication specialists to work closely with AI safety researchers. We believe these roles are high-impact, contributing to some of the most interesting research agendas in safety. We also think they offer an excellent opportunity to build skills and connections via mentorship and working closely with researchers at a variety of labs.

We were inspired to start FAR after noticing that many academic and independent researchers wanted to work with more collaborators, but often lacked the institutional framework and hiring pipeline to do so. On the other hand, there are a large number of talented people who would like to contribute to AI safety, but lack a stepping stone into the field. Our hope is that FAR can help fill this gap, both directly accelerating valuable research and helping to address the talent pipeline.

In the remainder of this post we'll give a bit more information about FAR and our current collaborators, and then summarize our current openings. Please consider applying or forwarding them to a friend who might be interested! We are also actively brainstorming other ways that FAR could be useful to the community. If you have any ideas, we’d love to hear from you!

About Us

FAR is a non-profit led by Ethan Perez, Adam Gleave, Scott Emmons, and Claudia Shi: a group of AI safety researchers looking to reduce existential risk from artificial intelligence. Ethan recently graduated from the PhD program at New York University, Adam and Scott are PhD candidates at UC Berkeley, and Claudia is a PhD candidate at Columbia University.

FAR provides services to AI safety researchers to accelerate their research agendas. We are currently focused on supporting the agendas of Ethan, Adam, Scott, and Claudia. We are also trialing a collaboration with the labs of David Kruger and Jacob Steinhardt, professors at the University of Cambridge and UC Berkeley.

Our services are currently provided free-of-charge to recipients out of FAR's general support funding. In the future we plan to charge partners who use large quantities of our services on an at-cost basis. This could be paid for from a partner's existing grant, or we can also assist the partner with fundraising for this purpose.

We anticipate supporting many of the same people that BERI currently works with. However, our or...

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